Leibniz Network on Non-Cognitive Skills

I was at the Leibniz network conference for a number of days. The keynote speakers were Profressor James Heckman and Peter Gollwitzer.

Implementation intentions were one large theme in the conference. Information on this concept is below. Some of the evidence suggests that performance in many tasks can be substantially improved through adopting simple "if-then" rules that free up cognitive resources.

http://www.psych.nyu.edu/gollwitzer/

There were also several papers on skill acquisition and the technology of human skill formation. Example of this is below

http://www.annalsnyas.org/cgi/content/abstract/1038/1/179

The next meeting will be in March 2009