(Beth Kurland, Ph.D.) Somewhat in a hurry to get home, I had just finished my errands and began to feel a familiar urgency. Almost immediately, the yellow school bus pulled out right in front of me. “Please turn, please turn so I don’t get stuck behind it,” I thought to myself. As luck would have it, I got stuck behind it — and all fifteen stops that it made along the way.
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5 Things You Need to Start Forming Better Habits
(Susie Pettit) If you’re interested in life advice for self-improvement, you’ll need to learn how to form good habits and how long it takes to break bad ones.
Confront the Dragon of Your Past
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The Importance of Belonging Across Life
(Kelly-Ann Allen Ph.D.) A developmental perspective of our need to belong.
Information Addiction: How Information Is like Snacks, Money, and Drugs to Your Brain
(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.
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.
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!
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