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Psychologists discover oxytocin receptor gene's link to optimism, self-esteem
ScienceDaily (Sep. 14, 2011) — UCLA life scientists have identified for the first time a particular gene's link to optimism, self-esteem and "mastery," the belief that one has control over one's own life -- three critical psychological resources for coping well with stress and depression.
What are the causes of success? At first glance, the answer is easy: success is about talent.
Which Traits Predict Success? (The Importance of Grit) | Wired Science | Wired.com
The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine
I ’m going to pause here, right at the beginning of my riveting article about attention, and ask you to please get all of your precious 21st-century distractions out of your system now. Check the score of the Mets game; text your sister that pun you just thought of about her roommate’s new pet lizard (“iguana hold yr hand LOL get it like Beatles”); refresh your work e-mail, your home e-mail, your school e-mail; upload pictures of yourself reading this paragraph to your “me reading magazine articles” Flickr photostream; and alert the fellow citizens of whatever Twittertopia you happen to frequent that you will be suspending your digital presence for the next twenty minutes or so (I know that seems drastic: Tell them you’re having an appendectomy or something and are about to lose consciousness). Good.
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The Memory Doctor 2010 - The future of false memories. - Slate Magazine
Cinnamon Stillwell never thought she'd be the founder of a political organization.
Psychology Today: The Ideological Animal
How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSD - Media - GOOD
It was my research editor who told me it was completely nuts to willingly get fucked at gunpoint. That's what she called me when I told her the story. We were drunk and in a karaoke bar, so at the time I came up with only a wounded face and a whiny, "I'm not completely nuuuuts!"