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Www.wjh.harvard.edu/~jgreene/GreeneWJH/Greene-etal-Neuron04.pdf. Where is the love? The social aspects of mimicry. Download to Citation Manager. Current Biology - Intergroup Empathy: How Does Race Affect Empathic Neural Responses? Experiment Design/Kafka and the Uncanny.pdf. Letters of Note. Magazine - Why Women Still Can’t Have It All. The culture of “time macho”—a relentless competition to work harder, stay later, pull more all-nighters, travel around the world and bill the extra hours that the international date line affords you—remains astonishingly prevalent among professionals today.

Magazine - Why Women Still Can’t Have It All

Nothing captures the belief that more time equals more value better than the cult of billable hours afflicting large law firms across the country and providing exactly the wrong incentives for employees who hope to integrate work and family. Yet even in industries that don’t explicitly reward sheer quantity of hours spent on the job, the pressure to arrive early, stay late, and be available, always, for in-person meetings at 11 a.m. on Saturdays can be intense. Indeed, by some measures, the problem has gotten worse over time: a study by the Center for American Progress reports that nationwide, the share of all professionals—women and men—working more than 50 hours a week has increased since the late 1970s.

Revaluing Family Values. The secret of self-control. In the late nineteen-sixties, Carolyn Weisz, a four-year-old with long brown hair, was invited into a “game room” at the Bing Nursery School, on the campus of Stanford University.

The secret of self-control

The room was little more than a large closet, containing a desk and a chair. Carolyn was asked to sit down in the chair and pick a treat from a tray of marshmallows, cookies, and pretzel sticks. Carolyn chose the marshmallow. Although she’s now forty-four, Carolyn still has a weakness for those air-puffed balls of corn syrup and gelatine. “I know I shouldn’t like them,” she says. Although Carolyn has no direct memory of the experiment, and the scientists would not release any information about the subjects, she strongly suspects that she was able to delay gratification.

Footage of these experiments, which were conducted over several years, is poignant, as the kids struggle to delay gratification for just a little bit longer. Most of the children were like Craig. What Should I Do If My PhD Advisor and Lab Colleagues Think I'm Stupid? Good Relationships: Couples Retreats: Relationships Marriage: Gottman.

For many decades, clinical writers have had to rely on their fantasies of what a good relationship is like.

Good Relationships: Couples Retreats: Relationships Marriage: Gottman

Often these fantasies did not match reality. One of the contributions of the Gottman and Levenson research is that well-functioning relationships have been studied over long periods of time (up to 20 years) so that we no longer have to rely on what we imagine a good relationship to be. There is new information in studying good relationships. It's not just reversing the grammar in the dysfunctional list. What is going well when a relationship is stable and satisfying to both partners? Good relationships are matched in preferred conflict style.

In 1974 an important book was published by Harold Raush. However, in our own research we found that all three styles (which we called Avoiders, Validators, and Volatiles) were all functional (stable and happy), if and only if the ratio of positive to negative interaction during conflict was greater than or equal to 5:1. The Brain on Love. Мне нравится что вы больны не мною.