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How to Listen When Someone's Upset | Psychology Today

When our loved-one erupts in anger and frustration, the last thing most of us think to do is to pour fuel on the fire by telling them they feel angry and frustrated. Yet when done , providing someone emotional validation can have extremely surprising results that strengthen relationship bonds. We've all been in situations in which a loved one is incredibly upset. It is often hard to know the best way to react in such scenarios. Our instinct is to try and calm them down but that is not easy to do and it might even be risky. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-squeaky-wheel/201106/the-antidote-anger-and-frustration

Hijacking Emotion Is The Key To Engaging Your Audience

The default to emotion is part of the human condition. http://www.fastcompany.com/1836569/hijacking-emotion-key-engaging-your-audience
http://freshome.com/2010/09/08/20-ways-to-use-color-psychology-in-your-home/ When you approach home design, you likely do so in a couple of different ways – choosing objects and colors that simply look attractive or using an existing pattern or decor theme to govern your decisions. However, color is a powerful tool that can be used to inspire emotions, create space illusions or simply set the mood and atmosphere for any particular room. Especially when used with interior and exterior painting, color psychology is a great way to create a healthy and beautiful home. The following are 20 ways to use color psychology in your home. 1.)

20 Ways to Use Color Psychology in Your Home

The Ten Most Revealing Psych Experiments

http://brainz.org/ten-most-revealing-psych-experiments/ Psychology is the study of the human mind and mental processes in relation to human behaviors - human nature. Due to its subject matter, psychology is not considered a 'hard' science, even though psychologists do experiment and publish their findings in respected journals. Some of the experiments psychologists have conducted over the years reveal things about the way we humans think and behave that we might not want to embrace, but which can at least help keep us humble. That's something. 1.
If you’re married or in a serious relationship, you’re no stranger to the phrase, “I love you.” You can say those 3 little words to your partner one million times, but we all know that it has to be followed up with action. Showing love isn’t an exact science. http://blog.self-improvement-saga.com/2010/09/ways-to-show-love/

75 Ways to Show Love - For Healthy Relationships | Self Improvement Saga

http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/lof93.htm Elizabeth F. Loftus Repression is one of the most haunting concepts in psychology. Something shocking happens, and the mind pushes it into some inaccessible corner of the unconscious.

The Reality of Repressed Memories

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And enhancing cognitive prowess later in life could naturally influence one's openness to new experiences, according to a new set of studies. VLADGRIN/ Shutterstock Every day it seems like researchers are discovering something else that overturns long-held notions about how the brain operates. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/mental-abilities-can-be-boosted-well-into-the-golden-years/254812/
March 29, 2010 People who scored high on a test that measures impulsive and antisocial traits had exaggerated brain responses to certain “rewards,” like winning money or taking stimulant drugs. The new study provides evidence that a dysfunctional brain reward system may underlie vulnerability to a personality disorder known as psychopathy. http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/march2010/03292010brain.htm

Psychopathic Traits Linked to Brain Reward System - NIH Research Matters

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Constructivism

Email Share Definition Constructivism is a philosophy of learning founded on the premise that, by reflecting on our experiences, we construct our own understanding of the world we live in. Each of us generates our own “rules” and “mental models,” which we use to make sense of our experiences. Learning, therefore, is simply the process of adjusting our mental models to accommodate new experiences.

Develop Willpower

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From AoPSWiki This article will provide a short list of commonly used LaTeX symbols. Operators Relations Negations of many of these relations can be formed by just putting \not before the symbol, or by slipping an n between the \ and the word.

LaTeX:Symbols - AoPSWiki

Sampling Terminology

« Previous Home Next » As with anything else in life you have to learn the language of an area if you're going to ever hope to use it. Here, I want to introduce several different terms for the major groups that are involved in a sampling process and the role that each group plays in the logic of sampling. The major question that motivates sampling in the first place is: "Who do you want to generalize to?"

People with a Situational Value System & Workplace Psychology - StumbleUpon

The other night, my wife and I were at a very nice hotel here in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. We went with our family to enjoy a show and prior to attending it, decided to get some coffee. As we were standing in line waiting (we were second in line) at a busy one-person coffee stand, the woman waiting behind us (she was third in line) yelled out, “Can I go ahead and pay for this?”

47 Mind-Blowing Psychology-Proven Facts You Should Know About Yourself - StumbleUpon

WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPH IS COMMONLY BELIEVED, BUT NOT TRUE – You read by recognizing the shapes of words and groups of words. Words that are in all capital letters all have the same shape: a rectangle of a certain size. This makes words displayed in all uppercase harder to read than upper and lower case (known as “mixed case”). Mixed case words are easier to read because they make unique shapes, as demonstrated by the picture below.