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Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis - 0 views

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    " The Pratfall Effect Explanations > Theories > The Pratfall Effect Description | Research | Example | So What? | See also | References Description When a person makes a mistake or acts in a clumsy way that might even make people laugh, they are found to be more likeable, including in comparison with people who are more intelligent and clever. When you make a mistake, you appear more human, more like others and so more likeable. People who are perfect can seem threatening, but people who are imperfect are safe and hence easier to truly like. Research Elliot Aronson played recordings of people answering a quiz, but with some you could hear the person knocking over a cup of coffee. People listening to the recordings rated the people who knocked over the coffee as being more likeable. Example A participant on a TV game show gets a big round of applause and many cheers for having a go and making a big mess of their task, whilst the person who wins just gets polite applause. So What? Using it If you want to be liked, make mistakes sometimes (or just admit to error), though do be careful to make it in an area which is unimportant and which will not make people think you are incapable in areas where they need your ability. Defending When others make mistakes watch for them immediately seeking your sympathy. It may be genuine, but just beware of them using it as a lever. Sometimes also others will try to appear helpless in order to get you to help them. In this sense, they are playing as 'child' and want you to be the 'nurturing parent'. See also Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis, Social Comparison Theory References Aronson, Willerman and Floyd (1966)"
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The Evolution :: Whole Body Vibration Industry Research - 0 views

  • potential applications and impact
  • compelling precursor
  • revolutionary method
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  • elderly, or after injuries
  • (just one session!)
  • complaints of the elderly
  • so that it is possible to still enjoy life and vitality even when one has reached old age.
  • elderly
  • in the elderly and women population. Many elderly people break their bones more
  • when they fall
  • as a result of the ageing proces
  • s. the Evolution™ offers a good alternative to vigorous impact exercise: through vibration the muscles automatically become stronger and regain their tone.
  • Scientific research shows that vibration training can help against osteoporosis. Recent findings
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  • , such as in chronic venous insufficiency.
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ScienceDirect - Trace Metals and other Contaminants in the Environment : Chapter 12 The... - 0 views

  • Anthropogenic changes of environmental conditions can roughly be indicated by the disappearance of species (Red lists) without identifying the reason for this process. Evolution of resistant ecotypes is a good strategy of a plant population with a high genetic potential to survive in changing environments, but it camouflages the loss of non-resistant populations.Test plants can be used for localizing emission sources and effects of emissions or for aimed release of compounds either at acute or chronic exposure.
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Health Reference Center Academic  Document - 0 views

  • On the other hand, DT2 is known as a genetic disease and a positive family history for DT2 is indicative of early biochemical detection. The association between family history and obesity doubles the risk of developing DT2 in a patient. Individual susceptibility for the development of DT2 is strongly influenced by genetic factors and this fact justifies the efforts to identify and characterize susceptibility genes for this disturbance.
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Once Upon a Time . . . Fairy Tales Shape Our Lives - 0 views

  • These tales are psychological mirrors and we become more complex as we mature. The storytellers intentionally loaded the adventures with heavy symbolism to reveal more meanings as we develop a deeper awareness of ourselves. Bedtime stories have enormous influence over our identities. People identify with certain characters in the stories they heard in childhood. To some degree, many live out these stories, largely unaware of how much the old tales may be shaping our lives.
  • It is a great treasure to know and reveal which tales from our childhood have a hold on us. Once the general pattern or storyline becomes evident, the challenge is to participate in the rewriting of our own story. We may not be able to create the rivers that carry us along but we can certainly navigate the little boats of our lives.
  • Mythic stories make up a kind of collective dream that we all have together. If we want to understand our dreams, in many respects, we can look at these stories and study them. If we want to understand the stories better, we can study our dreams. There is a great inter-relationship between these two forms of our imagination.
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  • A talking animal in a story is often the voice of nature. Among other messages, we are being reminded that we are also animals.
  • We are nature
  • Sinister or wicked characters may represent aspects of ourselves that have been neglected or rejected. Carl Jung noted that the shadow energies in dreams and stories often appear as threatening witches or wolves. Jung insisted that something good can come from this darkness. Something valuable waits for us in the shadow. We are not to exclude that from how we define ourselves.
  • The darker elements in some tales often reveal shadow energies in an action, an image, or even a setting. The deep dark forest is a common representation of the feared elements within. The monsters live in the forest. The forest can reflect parts of ourselves that are never entirely tamed, that are always somewhat dangerous and chaotic.
  • We need to go into the dark forest.
  • Such experiences force us to claim aspects of ourselves that we have neglected to develop. We become more than we thought was possible.
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Academic OneFile Document - 0 views

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    A Unique Job Hunting Plan
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PowerSearch  Document - 0 views

  • ndividuals who want to increase their value in the job market need to use a strategic marketing approach to career development. The idea is to market oneself as an individual business or product and as such develop a strategy that seeks to enhance one's value through self-promotion.
  • Well-planned self-promotion can boost your personal stock regardless of where you are now and where you want to be in the future.
  • think of yourself as a product or an organization that I like to refer to as "Me, Inc."
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  • does require that you come to certain realizations--that your professional abilities are valuable commodities, that your expertise and abilities don't speak for themselves, and that your phone won't ring just because it "should" be telepathically obvious that you have something valuable to contribute.
  • You're always a step closer to your goals when you have the ability to build from the relationships, reputation, and visibility you've established. What good does it do to put all this effort into perfecting your product (your skills, experiences, and abilities) and crafting yourself as "Me, Inc." if nobody knows about it? You need to be able to communicate what value you add and what you have to contribute.
  • The general approach of any consumer product marketing strategy is the same as that of marketing "Me, Inc.": to develop products and services that meet market needs at competitive prices, to gain recognition for those products and services, and to convince people to exchange money for the value they provide.
  • Identify your target markets. * Assess target market needs. * Develop your unique products and services. * Promote yourself in the internal and external marketplace. * Build credibility by providing high-quality services. * Evaluate your marketability.
  • The general career direction you choose will drive the process of determining where you should concentrate your marketing efforts. As your career goals become more clearly defined, your market targets will in turn become more specific.
  • you need to identify those who can help you, recommend you, or act as mentors, so that you begin to better understand how you can effectively enter that new "marketplace."
  • Develop your unique products and services. The most marketable people are those who bring obvious value to their target markets. Confidence comes from having a strong self-image and being able to answer the question: "What do I do that is uniquely different and better than anyone else?" If you cannot define this value-added dimension, that's the place to start in crafting you as a marketplace product.
  • hile it is important to differentiate yourself from the crowd, you also need to be accepted and heard if you're going to sell yourself and your ideas. Paying attention to "personal packaging" is an important part of developing you for the marketplaces you select.
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WebVoyage Brief Record - 0 views

  • Title: The control of drugs and drug users : reason or reaction? / edited by Ross Coomber.
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Ethics - 0 views

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      Those for the war on drugs
  • Drug use as intrinsically wrong
  • Misleading analogies
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The Morality of Drug Controls - 0 views

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  • We Americans regard freedom of speech and religion as fundamental rights. Until 1914, we also regarded the freedom of choosing our diets and drugs as fundamental rights. Obviously, this is no longer true today. What is behind this fateful moral and political transformation, which has resulted in the rejection, by the overwhelming majority of Americans, of their right to self-control over their diets and drugs? How could it have come about in view of the obvious parallels between the freedom to put things into one's mind and its restriction by the state by means of censorship of the press, and the freedom to put things into one's body and its restriction by the state by means of drug controls?
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David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech at Kenyon College - 0 views

  • There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?"
  • The story ["thing"] turns out to be one of the better, less bullshitty conventions of the genre, but if you're worried that I plan to present myself here as the wise, older fish explaining what water is to you younger fish, please don't be. I am not the wise old fish. The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.
  • in the day to day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have a life or death importance,
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  • onstructing meaning from experience
  • if how we construct meaning were not actually a matter of personal, intentional choice.
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CQ Researcher Online - Pro/Con - 0 views

  • George Allen
  • I hold no sympathy and no compassion for those parasites who risk the lives of our children. We should punish these pushers as severely as we would if they forced our children to eat rat poison, because the results can easily be the same.
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CQ Researcher Online - Current Situation - 0 views

  • McCaffrey's Approach The other main criticism of current policy is that federal support of drug-prevention and treatment programs is out of balance. “Obviously, we need law enforcement because a lot of drug users are in the criminal-justice system,” says Gale Saler, deputy executive director of Second Genesis. “But the amounts we're spending on drug efforts seem way out of kilter when you consider the effectiveness of programs where most of the money is spent. It we could snap our fingers and all of a sudden stop all drugs at the border, we'd still have a drug problem in this country. We grow our own marijuana, and we produce methamphetamine and pharmaceutical drugs. People with this disease are going to use something until they get high. We need to focus on addiction.” McCaffrey defends the administration's budget priorities. “Drug-treatment dollars have gone up by 34 percent over five budget years,” he says. “That's unarguable.” In addition, McCaffrey says the administration has helped make drug treatment available by providing substance-abuse and mental-health coverage to federal workers, to take effect in October. “If you're an oncology patient and have an associated nutrition problem, the hospital will treat you as a holistic challenge,” he says. “We want the same thing for drug addiction and mental health. By the way, we'll save a lot of money if we do that. If we treat your substance-abuse problem, we won't then subsequently have to treat you for a quarter-of-a-million-dollar problem because you're HIV-infected or treat you as a traffic-accident victim.”
  • The use of voter initiatives as a vehicle for drug-policy reform took off in 1996, when California voters approved Proposition 215 legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The same year, Arizona voters approved a similar initiative, whose final implementation will be put to a vote this fall. In 1998, Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Nevada and the District of Columbia followed suit. Initiatives took immediate effect in the first three states; the Colorado vote was later nullified following allegations that insufficient signatures had been collected to allow the issue to go on the ballot, while Nevada's Constitution requires a second vote for an initiative to take effect. Medical marijuana will be on ballots again this fall in Colorado and Nevada.
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WebVoyage Brief Record - 0 views

  • Author: Szasz, Thomas Stephen, 1920- Title: Our right to drugs : the case for a free market / Thomas Szasz. Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c1992. Description: xvii, 199 p. ; 25 cm. LC Subject(s): Pharmaceutical policy --United States. Drug control --Moral and ethical aspects. Drug control --United States. Drug legalization --United States. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-189) and indexes. Persistent URL: http://voyager.gvsu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=248166Cover Image: Location: MAIN Stacks (Call #'s A-L on 2nd floor, M-Z on 3rd floor) Call Number: RA401.A3 S93 1992 Status: Available
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