Ellen Langer: about. Dr.
Ellen Langer, Ph.D., is a social psychologist and the first female professor to gain tenure in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. She is the author of eleven books and more than two hundred research articles written for general and academic readers on mindfulness for over 35 years. Her best selling books include Mindfulness; The Power of Mindful Learning; On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity; and Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility.
Maxwell Jones. It was Maxwell Jones (1907-1990) who most enthusiastically developed the concepts of the therapeutic community both in Britain and in the United States and attempted to spread those concepts to institutions outside of the formal psychiatric system.
Another army psychiatrist, Jones first developed a program during the war to treat soldiers suffering from “effort syndrome,” a psychosomatic disorder that was related to combat fatigue. The approach was focused on education in a group setting which led to the development of a “group atmosphere”. Treatment was no longer confined to a therapeutic hour but became a continuous process operating throughout the waking life of the patient. To accomplish this, Jones had to reorder the hospital society and flatten the traditional hierarchical pyramid of authority to promote more interaction between patients, nurses, and doctors. Shawn Achor on The Happy Secret To Better Work (Transcript) – The Singju Post. ‘Learned Helplessness’ & Torture: An Exchange. Schumpeter - Against happiness. LORD Percy of Newcastle, Britain’s minister of education in 1924-29, was no fan of the fad for happy-clappy “progressive” education that spread among the country’s schools on his watch.
Latest Research Says Praising Employees Boosts Productivity After All. Remember when praising was considered a good thing?
No more. It’s become almost fashionable these days to think that praise is bad. Aristotle: Ethics. Standard interpretations of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics usually maintain that Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.) emphasizes the role of habit in conduct.
It is commonly thought that virtues, according to Aristotle, are habits and that the good life is a life of mindless routine. These interpretations of Aristotle’s ethics are the result of imprecise translations from the ancient Greek text. Aristotle uses the word hexis to denote moral virtue. But the word does not merely mean passive habituation. Rather, hexis is an active condition, a state in which something must actively hold itself. Virtue, therefore, manifests itself in action. Why a Happy Brain Performs Better. Featured Guest: Shawn Achor, CEO of Aspirant and author of The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work.
Download this podcast. It’s a MUCH More Effective Quotation to Attribute It to Aristotle, Rather than to Will Durant. The Aristotelian conception of habit and its contribution to human neuroscience. GGSC JTF White Paper Gratitude FINAL. Shawn achor - PubMed - NCBI. Reasons why nurses decline influenza vaccination: a qualitative study. What makes chickens happy? Nobody is quite sure. How do you measure a chicken’s happiness?
Is it in the way it runs for food? How much time it spends preening? To size up what might make chickens happy in their brief lives, researchers at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, are putting 16 breeds through physical fitness and behavioral tests. Getting Started with fMRI. Index Interested in fMRI but not Associated with an fMRI Lab?
Using the CNL Website Overview of the fMRI experiment Safety Training Interested in fMRI but not Associated with an fMRI Lab? The Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data - STS282.pdf. George E. Vaillant's: Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development. George E.
Vaillant's "We all need models for how to live from retirement to past 80--with joy," writes George Vaillant, M.D., director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. This groundbreaking book pulls together data from three separate longevity studies that, beginning in their teens, followed 824 individuals for more than 50 years. The subjects were male Harvard graduates; inner-city, disadvantaged males; and intellectually gifted women. !5.PDF - LDH-Post-Inequality. Human Body Statistics. Experts Decisive Against Multivitamins: 'Stop Wasting Money' - James Hamblin. A panel of physicians wrote today in a major medical journal about which vitamin and mineral supplements are bad and which are null, and how we keep buying them.
"We believe that the case is closed— supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults with (most) mineral or vitamin supplements has no clear benefit and might even be harmful. These vitamins should not be used for chronic disease prevention. Enough is enough. " This Is Your Brain on Gluten - James Hamblin.
A No. 1 bestseller by a respected physician argues that gluten and carbohydrates are at the root of Alzheimer's disease, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. What to make of the controversial theory? “If you could make just three simple changes in your life to prevent, or even reverse, memory loss and other brain disorders, wouldn’t you?” So asks Dr. David Perlmutter, in promotion of his PBS special Brain Change, coming soon to your regional affiliate. Three changes. Personality.
Pufferfish Make Seafloor Circles to Attract Mates. Peters Map. What the Cults believe. Contents Back to Table of Contents. Gut microbiota composition correlates with diet and h... [Nature. 2012. Research Publications - APC Management Structure - About Us - Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre. A galaxy within us: Our gut microbiota and how it can be programmed by food. Who would have thought that the human body contains over 10 times the amount of bacterial cells as human cells?
Yet More Proof That Violent Videogames Don't Cause Aggression. Psych Central, depression, bipolar, ADHD and psychology information . Video Games ProCon.org. 2001-Aggression Scale.pdf. Violent Video Games. Americans Are Way Behind in Math, Vocabulary, and Technology - Roberto A. Ferdman.
The US boasts the world’s largest GDP and the planet’s most influential government, but its citizens aren’t all that intellectually exceptional. Americans have trouble with words… The report defines literacy as the “ability to understand, evaluate, use and engage with written texts to participate in society, to achieve one’s goals, and to develop one’s knowledge and potential” (p. 63). Siblings Share Genes, But Rarely Personalities. Foot Cream Kills HIV by Tricking Cells to Commit Suicide. A drug commonly prescribed to treat nail fungus appears to come with a not-so-tiny side effect: killing HIV in cell cultures. In a study performed at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, not only does the drug Ciclopirox rid infectious HIV from cell cultures, but the virus also doesn't bounce back when the drug is withheld.
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