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http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201207/james-deen-porn-star-gq-june-2012-interview?printable=true

Porn Star James Deen GQ Profile - July 2012: Celebrities

It is a clement spring day in greater Los Angeles, and James Deen is driving through the soft green tumescences of the Calabasas hills on his way to a pornographic-movie shoot.

Psychologists discover oxytocin receptor gene's link to optimism, self-esteem

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. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110914101746.htm
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/what-is-success-true-grit/ 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 

The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation

http://nymag.com/news/features/56793/ I. The Poverty of Attention 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.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200612/the-ideological-animal 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

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!" http://www.good.is/posts/how-violent-sex-helped-ease-my-ptsd