Should you get wasted the night before a big exam?
re, why not? Despite what I recently posted about drinking negatively affecting performance in college, this study says that binge drinking the night before a test doesn't negatively affect grades: In a first-of-its kind controlled experiment, researchers from the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and Brown University have found that surprisingly, binge drinking the night before a test does not impact college students' test performance – although it can affect their moods, attention and reaction times. The study,…
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The 4 Psychological Techniques That Increased Navy SEAL Passing Rates
er since reading The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 I've been interested in Navy SEAL training, particularly the psychological aspects. In his blog at Psychology Today, Bakari Akil covers a History channel documentary The Brain and what it revealed about the four techniques the Navy used to increase passing rates in the elite SEAL program: Goal Setting "With goal setting the recruits were taught to set goals in extremely short chunks. For instance, one former Navy Seal…
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