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Computers in Human Behavior - Mindful multitasking: The relationship between mindful flexibility and media multitasking. Abstract With the insatiable demand for and corresponding burgeoning of electronic devices enabling individuals to accomplish many things simultaneously, effective multitasking may be a necessity in today’s world.

Computers in Human Behavior - Mindful multitasking: The relationship between mindful flexibility and media multitasking

The present study was concerned with the improvement of media multitasking by increasing mindful flexibility through a state mindfulness induction (Langer, 1989). Seventy-five participants were randomized into one of three state mindfulness induction groups (High Mindful, Low Mindful, No Treatment). Multitasking performance was assessed via a dual-task paradigm that involved composing an essay on a computer and solving anagrams sent via a browser-based chat program. Results revealed that higher trait mindfulness was related to greater tolerance of ambiguity, a greater tendency to adopt a Heuristic than Algorithmic thinking style, greater complexity in thinking style, greater positive affect, and less negative affect. Highlights Keywords Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. When Is it OK to Text Your Doctor? Lying to a Spouse: Relationship Advice on How It Can Be Healthy. Your Phone vs. Your Heart. To Rome with Love (2012. On the Road (2012. Enduring Love (2004. BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time.

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To view this item, select one of the options below: A Christian model of mindfulness: using mindfulness principles to support p. The Science of Success - David Dobbs. Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere.

The Science of Success - David Dobbs

A few of us, however, are more like the orchid: fragile and fickle, but capable of blooming spectacularly if given greenhouse care. So holds a provocative new theory of genetics, which asserts that the very genes that give us the most trouble as a species, causing behaviors that are self-destructive and antisocial, also underlie humankind’s phenomenal adaptability and evolutionary success.

With a bad environment and poor parenting, orchid children can end up depressed, drug-addicted, or in jail—but with the right environment and good parenting, they can grow up to be society’s most creative, successful, and happy people. Vault49 At the outset of their study, Bakermans-Kranenburg and her colleagues had screened 2,408 children via parental questionnaire, and they were now focusing on the 25 percent rated highest by their parents in externalizing behaviors.

The Merits of Meritocracy - David Brooks. My daughter is a four-helmet kid.

The Merits of Meritocracy - David Brooks

She has a regular helmet she wears bike riding, pogo sticking, and when she borrows her older brother's skateboard. She has a pink batting helmet, which she wears during her Little League baseball games. She has a helmet for horseback-riding lessons, on Sundays. And she has a helmet for ice hockey, which she plays on Friday afternoons.

(For hockey she also has an equipment bag large enough to hold several corpses.) But it's her helmets that really got me thinking. It's a busy childhood, filled with opportunities, activities, teams, coaches, and, inevitably, gear. This sort of childhood is different from the childhoods Americans have traditionally had. From the archives: "Where Toys Come From" (October 1986) Selling fun to children is one of capitalism's least predictable pursuits. Today's mode of raising kids generates a lot of hand-wringing and anxiety, some of it on my part. But I've come to believe that our fears are overblown. The End of White America? - Hua Hsu. Illustrations By Felix Sockwell "Civilization’s going to pieces,” he remarks.

The End of White America? - Hua Hsu

He is in polite company, gathered with friends around a bottle of wine in the late-afternoon sun, chatting and gossiping. “I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read The Rise of the Colored Empires by this man Goddard?” They hadn’t. Also see: State of the Union: Race Hua Hsu and Ta-Nehisi Coates discuss Obama, football, hip-hop, and the elusive notion of a "post-racial" society. Living With Less. A Lot Less. The Word According to Tom Wolfe. Liuoliver. Modern.