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1 Oct 2010, 1:11 pm by StephanieWestAllen
Excerpt: As qualities go, society has put a premium on cooperation and consensus. [read post]
5 Jan 2011, 7:11 am by StephanieWestAllen
Excerpt: This new psychology movement centers on mindfulness—the increasing popular emphasis on paying attention to the present moment. [read post]
6 Jan 2011, 7:35 am by StephanieWestAllen
A new study looks at which parts of the brain are acivated when a person makes a value judgment, choosing one thing over another. [read post]
1 Feb 2011, 4:40 pm by StephanieWestAllen
Excerpt from "Pitfalls and Opportunities in Nonverbal and Verbal Lie Detection": The question of whether discernible differences exist between liars and truth tellers has interested professional lie detectors and laypersons for centuries. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 8:05 am by StephanieWestAllen
If you are near Amherst, and interested in the topic, you may hear this well-chosen lineup of speakers; the event is open to the public. [read post]
9 Jul 2011, 3:15 pm by StephanieWestAllen
From "The Handwriting Is on the Wall" (Wall Street Journal): Indeed, my first reaction to the news from Indiana [where "schools will no longer be required to teach children to write longhand, so that students can focus on typing"] was visceral despair, not only because the world I had known was now declared antediluvian, dead and buried, but because it presaged a further hollowing out of the human personality, a further colonization of the human mind by the virtual at the expense… [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 7:13 pm by StephanieWestAllen
Staff at Wake Forest University have transformed old law books into new objects. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 8:50 pm by StephanieWestAllen
Abstract of "Become more optimistic by imagining a best possible self: Effects of a two week intervention" (Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry): Background and objectives: Optimism is a personality trait which has repeatedly been shown to correlate with, and predict psychological and physical well-being. [read post]
7 Sep 2009, 12:06 pm
Today was the first I have heard of the new book Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter. . . [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 8:42 am
Excerpt: In Dreamworks’ 2005 movie Madagascar, Alex the Lion responds to his zoo-mate Marty the Zebra’s depression on reaching his 10th birthday: ‘another year’s come and gone and I’m still doing the same old thing: stand up here, over there, eat some grass and walk back over here. [read post]
4 Apr 2010, 12:54 pm by StephanieWestAllen
Over the many years since third grade, this poem has never left my memory. [read post]