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...particular gene variant, or allele, that reduces the density of receptors for dopamine - a neurotransmitter that plays a key role in motivation, pleasure and addiction - in certain areas of the brain. Brain scans also showed significantly less activity in those areas in response to the sad-faced negative feedback, in the men who had the allele. When it occurred, however, that brain activity was linked to activity in other parts of the brain that forms memories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Learn from Our Mistakes | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...good news is that having the allele doesn't necessarily mean you can't learn from your mistakes. Although the men who had the genetic variant did show weaker responses to negative feedback, they did not perform markedly worse on the task at hand: They selected the good symbols from the bad about as often as participants who didn't have the allele. The results suggest that learning - though influenced by dopamine - is a complex process that involves much more than one kind of brain receptor. "It's just one factor that may contribute to some problems that might arise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Learn from Our Mistakes | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...complete opt-out, whereby Facebook users will be able to disable the ad tracking feature once and for all. Facebook faced a similar large-scale outcry from its users when it introduced the “News Feed” last year, but it has since received positive feedback about this feature. The information shared is based on “conversations that are already happening between people,” Facebook founder and CEO Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006, said when introducing the program in New York last month. But some users might need more...

Author: By Marion Liu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Facebook Yields to Petition | 12/4/2007 | See Source »

...ever receive negative feedback from editors before your career took off? -Claudia Nelson, Hydesville, CA I can't say negative, but I certainly had plenty of rejections. It is very rare that you sell the first book right away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Nora Roberts | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...consumer group so driven by what’s tangible and immediate that even the slightest variation from common goods can make it irrelevant.DID SOMEONE ORDER A PIZZA?While these concerns are certainly real—perhaps even widespread—many brand reps generally report positive feedback from their fellow students. McGugan, who was the Papa John’s pizza campus rep for three semesters before leaving to study abroad in Australia this fall, recalls that her job made her “quite a popular person in Kirkland House, and all around campus...

Author: By Erin C. Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: What's in a Name? | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

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