Why you really should keep a journal, no matter how cheesy that sounds. If you've spent any significant time reading books or articles on the "science of happiness", you'll have encountered what I've long thought of as the Cheesiness Problem.
It's an inescapable fact that some of the most thoroughly evidence-backed techniques for enhancing one's mood are also the most excruciatingly embarrassing – the sorts of things that those of us who imagine ourselves to be rational, sceptical types would never dream of confessing to. This is awkward, since (as I've written before) it means having to choose between maintaining a pose of sardonic detachment or doing what actually works. For me, the most vivid example is keeping a gratitude journal. On the one hand, it really helps. On the other hand – well, come on. Anyway, this problem just got worse. Researchers led by Elizabeth Broadbent, a senior lecturer in health psychology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, studied 49 healthy senior citizens, aged 64 to 97.
The Neuroscience of Introversion. I recently read “The Introvert Advantage” by Marti Olsen Laney.
The best chapter of the book by far was entitled “The Emerging Brainscape” which discusses the known physiological differences between introverts and extroverts. Though the book as a whole was too long for the amount of information it conveyed, this chapter was genuinely informative. There are four key differences between the introvert and extrovert brain: the quantity of blood that flows to the brain, the path the blood takes through the brain, the chemicals needed to feel good and the type of nervous system most commonly activated.
Introverts have a greater blood flow to the brain than extroverts. Blood flows to parts of the body that are stimulated, suggesting that introverted individuals tend to be more easily stimulated than extroverted induviduals. What’s more, the path the blood takes within the introvert’s brain is longer and more complex than that of the extrovert. Like this: Like Loading... Limitele naturale ale autocunoaşterii. Le-am povestit studenţilor mei o scenă din serialul Dr.
House. Era vorba despre o scenă cunoscută de ei, desigur, dar nu neapărat decriptată. În respectiva scenă, House, recunoaşte cu multă sinceritate că îşi doreşte ca soţul fostei iubite să moară. House îl trata pe soţul fostei lui iubite (Stacy), nereuşind, ca de obicei, să pună un diagnostic, lucru remediat până la finalul episodului, ca întotdeauna. Aşadar House recunoaşte că îşi doreşte ca acest om să moară, deşi, atenţie, depune toate eforturile pentru a-l salva. Însă nu ştiu de ce îmi doresc să moară, spune el (aproximativ). Folosindu-şi puterile introspective (ca noi toţi, de altfel), House devine conştient de dorinţă, dar nu poate şti care sunt cauzele dorinţei.
Deoarece cauzele (de ce-urile) trăirilor sau acţiunilor noastre sunt dincolo de o limită pe care, inspirat de Timothy Wilson, am numit-o ZIDUL. House rămâne sceptic şi bine face. Poate lucrurile ar sta altfel dacă am avea creierul lui C. 10 Psychological Experiments That Went Horribly Wrong. Psychology as we know it is a relatively young science, but since its inception it has helped us to gain a greater understanding of ourselves and our interactions with the world.
Many psychological experiments have been valid and ethical, allowing researchers to make new treatments and therapies available, and giving other insights into our motivations and actions. Sadly, others have ended up backfiring horribly — ruining lives and shaming the profession. Here are ten psychological experiments that spiraled out of control. 10. Stanford Prison Experiment Prisoners and guards In 1971, social psychologist Philip Zimbardo set out to interrogate the ways in which people conform to social roles, using a group of male college students to take part in a two-week-long experiment in which they would live as prisoners and guards in a mock prison. 9.
Wendell Johnson, of the University of Iowa, who was behind the study Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, also seen top 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. David Reimer.