(Neuroscience) A new study by researchers at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has found that information acts on the brain’s dopamine-producing reward system in the same way as money or food.
Psychology
The Science Of Mantras: How Sacred Sounds Heal Body, Mind And Spirit
(Paul Harrison) For more than 3000 years mantras (sacred sounds) have been chanted for the purpose of spiritual healing.
True Multi-Tasking: You Can Learn a New Language While You Sleep, According to Researchers
(Edsel Cook) Sleep turns out to be more than just a period when the body rests and recuperates from the labors of a busy day. Swiss researchers demonstrated the possibility of learning new things during sleeping periods.
Psychiatrist Wins National Award for Research That Shows How Trauma Seeps Across Generations
(Keith Brannon) The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) has selected Tulane child psychiatry professor Dr. Stacy Drury to receive the 2018 Norbert and Charlotte Rieger Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement.
Six Keys to Expressing Your Emotions
(Exploring Your Mind) If emotions are so genuine, then why do we spend so much energy repressing, hiding, and keeping them to ourselves?
The Rationality Wars and the Credibility Revolution
(Alexander Danvers Ph.D.) The Credibility Revolution in psychology is in part a product of the discipline’s own success, according to a recent philosophy paper. The author Ivan Flis, argues that at the heart of our desire to improve methods for making scientific claims is applying a phenomenon psychologists established observing others to ourselves: Confirmation Bias.
Round Table: Gender Roles, Lost Intimacy & Why the Cabal Targeted Women with as Speaker Justin Deschamps
(EnLightenUp) Justin Deschamps from Stillness In The Storm joins the enLIGHTenUP Crew today with some very thought provoking conversation about; Sexual Intimacy; The Cabal, Gender Roles; Parenting; Alpha & Beta Male and so much more!!
The Sympathetic Nervous System — Survival Psychology
(Exploring your Mind) Although you may not know anything about the sympathetic nervous system, it plays an important role in your everyday life. Read on to learn more about this crucial part of your autonomic nervous system!
Deeper Look: How the Trans Movement Revealed the Absurdity of Political Correctness
Deeper Look: How the Trans Movement Revealed the Absurdity of Political Correctness
Mental Health Problems—The Sad “New Normal” on College Campuses
(Children’s Health Network) College campuses are witnessing record levels of student mental health problems, ranging from depression and anxiety disorders to self-injurious behaviors and worse. A clinician writing a few years ago in Psychology Today proclaimed it neither “exaggeration” nor “alarmist” to acknowledge that young Americans are experiencing “greater levels of stress and psychopathology than any time in the nation’s history”—with ramifications that are “difficult to overstate.”
8 Ways to Write Away Your Worries
(Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S.) You are worried about a litany of things, and it feels like these worries are pelting you in the head like balls from a pitching machine.
Assertive Communication with Your Family
(Exploring Your Mind) Communication is the foundation for a good relationship with your family. But, how can you get your family to listen to you? It’s easier than you may think! Establishing assertive communication with your family is more than possible.
41 Powerful Journaling Exercises for Mind Expansion and Effective Behavior Change
(Michal Korzonek) Based on the work of some of the greatest world-class experts on productivity, complexity thinking, health and wellbeing, and more
Ostracism and Social Exclusion
(Exploring your Mind) The term ostracism comes from the Greek ostrakismos, which means to banish by voting with potsherds. Ostracism and social exclusion are both forms of social punishment. They stem from all sorts of prejudice, racial or sexual discrimination, and a diversity of beliefs or personal values.
Intelligence Vs. Rationality: The Difference Between “Smarts” and Wisdom
(John DiPrete) I recently took a Rationality Test and discovered that I was surprisingly rational. (I took it twice to be sure.) How could that be? I wondered. It’s a plain fact that I’ve committed millions of stupid errors, in my life, and was STILL making them! What’s more, few people would ever call me a world class intellect, in terms of intelligence tests or other abstract-thinking measurements. Logically speaking — Mr. Spock I am not.