Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (9780061353246): Dan Ariely The Chocolate-and-Radish Experiment That Birthed the Modern Conception of Willpower - Hans Villarica - Health Psychologist Roy Baumeister reflects on his groundbreaking 1998 research on self-control and shares how it became the dominant theory despite its unpopular Freudian roots. A strong man from the late 19th century. Library of Congress Back in 1996, Roy Baumeister conducted an experiment that was downright evil. Together with his former Case Western Reserve University colleagues Ellen Bratslavsky, Mark Muraven, and Dianne Tice, he examined the effect of a tempting food challenge designed to deplete participants' willpower through the awful power of an unfulfilled promise of chocolate! In the first part of the trial, Baumeister kept the 67 study participants in a room that smelled of freshly baked chocolate cookies and then teased them further by showing them the actual treats alongside other chocolate-flavored confections. After the food bait-and-switch, Baumeister's team gave the participants a second, supposedly unrelated exercise, a persistence-testing puzzle. A 1919 Popular Science ad.
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home (9780061995033): Dan Ariely Mindset (book) Carol S. Dweck (born October 17, 1946) is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University.[1] She graduated from Barnard College in 1967 and earned a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1972. She taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the University of Illinois before joining the Stanford faculty in 2004. Contributions[edit] Professor Dweck has primary research interests in motivation,[2][3][4][5][6][7] personality, and development. She teaches courses in Personality and Social Development as well as Motivation. "In a fixed mindset students believe their basic abilities, their intelligence, their talents, are just fixed traits. This is important because (1) individuals with a "growth" theory are more likely to continue working hard despite setbacks and (2) individuals' theories of intelligence can be affected by subtle environmental cues. Selected publications[edit] Dweck, C. Sources[edit] See also[edit] Goal orientation References[edit]
Audience Picks: Top 100 'Killer Thrillers' The Winner: The Silence Of The Lambs by Thomas Harris beat out two other serial killer books -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Kiss the Girls by James Patterson -- for the No. 1 spot. hide caption toggle caption It's been a cliffhanger, but now the final page can be turned. The NPR audience nominated some 600 novels to our "Killer Thrillers" poll and cast more than 17,000 ballots. The final roster of winners is a diverse one to say the least, ranging in style and period from Dracula to The Da Vinci Code, Presumed Innocent to Pet Sematary. What these top 100 titles share, however, is that all of them are fast-moving tales of suspense and adventure. And menace. Co-panelist, novelist and critic Patrick Anderson was more impressed with the overall quality of the choices: "The vast majority of these are very good books or classics ... Of course, there will be arguments about whether some of these books truly count as "thrillers." 1. 11. 21. 31. 41. 51. 61. 71. 81. 91. 1.
Relaxation & Creativity: The Science of Sleeping on It | Moments of Genius by Sam McNerney Sigmund Freud postulated that dreaming is a reflection of the unleashed id; it represents one’s deep sexual fantasies and frustrations implanted during childhood. But what happens when we fall asleep is usually much less dramatic; we dream about the problems of everyday life. In 2004, the neuroscientists Ullrich Wagner and Jan Born published a paper in Nature that examined the relationship between sleep and problem solving. They found that only 20 percent of the participants were sharp enough to spot the shortcut even though most wrestled the task for several hours. In terms of problem solving, the queen of dreams might be Deirdre Barrett, a professor at Harvard Medical School. After one week, Barrett found that about half of the students dreamt about their problem and about a quarter dreamt a solution. The lesson from this line of research is that sleeping is not a lifeless activity. There is a time and place for caffeine. Dudarev Mikhail/Shuttershock.com
A Reading of "Ulysses" or what it's worth I always thought In Memoriam concluded with a bit of pre-William James Pragmatism. Is there a life after death? Tennyson asks. We can't know, he tells us, but if it comforts you, believe it. It then becomes — for you, at least — a truth. My brother introduced me to "Ulysses" when I was a boy not long after WWII and, yes, the interpretation then was about not giving in. Older men in India sometimes abandoned wives and families (having raised their children and left them secure) to travel the country with nothing but a begging bowl as they sought release from the wheel of life. Yet what strikes me most about this poem, now, is the age of the poet. Poets can be intoxicated by words and the grand gesture. Related Materials
Deirdre Barrett - The "Committee of Sleep" : A Study of Dream Incubation for Probelm Solving - Dreaming Articles Online from the journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams Dreaming, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1993 The “Committee of Sleep”: A Study of DreamIncubation for Problem Solving Deirdre Barrett[1] Subjects incubated dreams addressing problems chosen by the dreamer nightly for one week. Approximately half recalled a dream which they judged to be related to their problem; a majority of these believed their dream contained a solution. KEY WORDS: dreaming; problem solving; creativity; dream incubation. The French Surrealist poet, St. None of these quotes designate the dream as spokesperson for the committee of sleep. Inventions as varied as Elias Howe's sewing machine needle—with the hole Dream psychologists and historians take a variety of stances toward such anecdotes. Others not only believe such problem solving occurs spontaneously, but also advocate cultivating it by dream incubation.. Several research studies have examined different aspects of problem solving and dreams. Two raters then judged all dreams in the week's journals on criteria A and B above.