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Intelligent people have unnatural preferences and values that are novel in human evolution

Intelligent people have unnatural preferences and values that are novel in human evolution

High Self-Perception, Low Brain Activity By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on January 7, 2010 Researchers have discovered the less you use your brain’s frontal lobes, the more you see yourself through rose-colored glasses. “In healthy people, the more you activate a portion of your frontal lobes, the more accurate your view of yourself is,” says Jennifer Beer, a University of Texas assistant professor of psychology. “And the more you view yourself as desirable or better than your peers, the less you use those lobes.” Those findings are being published in the February edition of the journal NeuroImage. The natural human tendency to see oneself in a positive light can be helpful and motivating in some situations but detrimental in others, Beer says. Her research, conducted at the university’s Imaging Research Center, gives new insight into the relationship among brain functions and human emotion and perceptions. Source: University of Texas at Austin APA Reference Nauert, R. (2010).

Female Depression - ELLE Investigates Why Women are Unhappy in Life At long last, it's been scientifically, mathematically, and economically proven: Women are kinda bummed out. And not just since the unemployment rate started creeping toward 10 percent; we have been sinking into this funk for the past 35 years. According to a perplexing new study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, women have experienced a steady erosion in happiness since the early 1970s, such that, while we used to test as happier than men, we are now notably less stoked than the hairier sex. When I read the study over the dank, rainy, recessiony summer, I wasn't exactly surprised to discover that women are eking less satisfaction out of life than men: It's well known that women report higher levels of depression and take the lion's share of antidepressants. "It's a blank slate," Stevenson said when I spoke to her recently.

Tetris effect Screenshot of a tetromino game. People who play video puzzle games like this for a long time may see moving images like this at the edges of their visual fields, when they close their eyes, or when they are drifting off to sleep. The Tetris effect (also known as Tetris Syndrome) occurs when people devote so much time and attention to an activity that it begins to pattern their thoughts, mental images, and dreams. Other examples[edit] The Tetris effect can occur with other video games.[2] It has also been known to occur with non-video games, such as the illusion of curved lines after doing a jigsaw puzzle, or the involuntary mental visualisation of Rubik's Cube algorithms common amongst speedcubers. On a perceptual level, sea legs are a kind of Tetris effect. ’Tain’t—so—bad—by—day because o’ company,But—night—brings—long—strings—o’ forty thousand million Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up an’ down again. Place in cognition[edit] History of the term[edit] L'effet Tetris[edit] See also[edit]

Dunning–Kruger effect Cognitive bias about one's own skill The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. Some researchers also include the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills. In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence instead of specific overconfidence of people unskilled at a particular task. The Dunning–Kruger effect is usually measured by comparing self-assessment with objective performance. For example, participants may take a quiz and estimate their performance afterward, which is then compared to their actual results. There are disagreements about what causes the Dunning–Kruger effect. There are disagreements about the Dunning–Kruger effect's magnitude and practical consequences. Definition[edit] David Dunning Measurement, analysis, and investigated tasks[edit] [edit]

Wake up to nap time Jill Murphy Long of Steamboat Springs, Colo., used to sneak naps. Her husband, she says, would occasionally find her asleep in the middle of the day. "He'd say, 'What are you doing? Are you sick?' " The experience led Long, a former advertising executive turned yoga and ski instructor, to write a book for other tired women, called Permission to Nap. But these days, just about anyone who craves a midday snooze can find plenty of encouragement. •Greek adults who took regular naps were significantly less likely to die of heart disease than those who didn't in a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in February. •Fast-living New Yorkers are paying $12 and up to nap at trendy sleep salons, the New York Times reported recently. •A psychologist who has spent her career studying naps is promoting a new book, Take a Nap: Change Your Life (Workman Publishing), which says napping is an underappreciated route to health and well-being. Share this story:

Does Spiritual Awakening Have "Symptoms"? It does according to Karen Bishop: 1. Changing sleep patterns: restlessness, hot feet, waking up two or three times a night. Feeling tired after you wake up and sleepy off and on during the day. There is something called the Triad Sleep Pattern that occurs for many: you sleep for about 2-3 hours, wake up, go back to sleep for another couple of hours, wake again, and go back to sleep again. For others, the sleep requirements have changed. Advice: Get used to it. 2. Advice: This is nothing to be alarmed about. 3. Advice: Accept your feelings as they come up and let them go. 4. Advice: Same as #3. 5. Advice: Don't freak out, but just accept it as a symptom of where you are right now. 6. Advice: Don't deny what your body tells you it needs. 7. 8. 8a. Advice: Your vision is changing in many ways -- you are experiencing new ways of seeing. 8b. Advice: Surrender to it. 8c. 9. Advice: You may be sloughing off toxins and bringing emotions to the surface. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.

Can You Overcome the Ego? Wayne Dyer Thinks So... Here are seven suggestions to help you transcend ingrained ideas of self-importance. All of these are designed to help prevent you from falsely identifying with the self-important ego. 1. Stop being offended. The behavior of others isn’t a reason to be immobilized. 2. Ego loves to divide us up into winners and losers. You’re not your winnings or your victories. 3. Ego is the source of a lot of conflict and dissension because it pushes you in the direction of making other people wrong. When you let go of the need to be right, you’re able to strengthen your connection to the power of intention. 4. True nobility isn’t about being better than someone else. 5. The mantra of ego is more. The universal Source is content with itself, constantly expanding and creating new life, never trying to hold on to its creations for its own selfish means. 6. This may be a difficult concept if you think you are your achievements. Your reputation is not located in you.

Psychiatric Drug Facts with Dr. Peter Breggin - HOME Grief Counseling After the Death of a Parent On January 24, my mother turned 79. Given her love of Catholicism, I sent her chocolates, a ceramic plaque that read peace be with you, and a card showing a photograph of two old nuns in traditional garb, laughing, with the words "Happy birthday! Here's to another year of bad habits!" Our telephone conversation that afternoon was brief, as my mother wasn't wearing her hearing aid, and I would be getting on a plane later in the week to visit her. She was excited and happy because, as she so often said, "I've been lonely for you." Nine days later, my mother died. Months pass, but every day feels as if she died the day before. The rush of comforting friends keeping me fed and flowered and feeling loved eventually wanes, as it should. I venture downtown to my pal Joanna's for dinner. Joanna has a better idea. "Thanks, Jo," I say, handing it back. "Look," she says, "I met the founder and I think she can help you get writing again. In 2002, Gerald, then married to the previous Mrs. "Dr.

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