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Maxime Lagacé

Ten Minutes Of Talking Improves Memory And Test Performance - 2 views

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  • Spending just 10 minutes talking to another person can help improve your memory and your performance on tests, according to a University of Michigan study to be published in the February 2008 issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
  • The higher the level of participants' social interaction, researchers found, the better their cognitive functioning.
  • The findings also suggest that social isolation may have a negative effect on intellectual abilities as well as emotional well-being. And for a society characterized by increasing levels of social isolation—a trend sociologist Robert Putnam calls "Bowling Alone"—the effects could be far-reaching.
  • Maxime Lagacé on 21 Feb 10
     
    Talking with friends helps us improve cognitive function. Social isolation do the opposite.
Maxime Lagacé

Word Fast/Qwerty: Type Fast Challenge - 0 views

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Cognitive Science Video Games Online Self Improvement typing

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    Improve your cognitive function - fun game - type fast to destroy enemy
Maxime Lagacé

How Superstitions Improve Performance - PsyBlog - 0 views

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  • Maxime Lagacé on 03 Jun 10
     
    Experiments reveal that simple superstitions like lucky charms can improve motor and cognitive performance.
Maxime Lagacé

Cognitive Fun! - 2 views

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    Learn your mind. Play it too. Games for the brain
Michael Manning

Lists « Skeptical Science - 0 views

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  • Michael Manning on 08 Jan 12
     
    Great list of Wikipedia articles with Lists for Critical Thinking
Maxime Lagacé

This Emotional Life: Why Does Religion Make People Happier? | World of Psychology - 1 views

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  • Many studies find that religious people on average are happier. But since not all religious people are happier, and not all religious beliefs seem to lead to happiness, we have to search for the “active ingredient” in what aspect of religion might increase feelings of well-being.
  • spirituality can focus us on larger causes than our own personal welfare, and this can give us purpose and meaning
  • People meet other like-minded people at church, and in many instances can count on those folks when they need help
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  • religion can help happiness is that it provides a moral compass, rules to live by
  • religion can provide answers to large questions, such as where did the universe come from, why is there evil, etc
  • the common causes of happiness: Having supportive relationships is very important. We found that all happy people have them. Being a supportive person to others is also important. People who help others seem to be better off. Some data show that people who help others a lot are healthier. Having purpose and meaning in life is important, a devotion to people or goals that are larger than ourselves. Finding activities in which one can use one’s talents and strengths, including one’s work
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      Maxime Lagacé on 08 Jan 10
       
      In other words, to be happy, we need to feel important and feel we progress toward something important to us.
  • Maxime Lagacé on 08 Jan 10
     
    Many studies found that religious people are happier.  This article talks about the ingredients of religion that might increase feelings of well-being.
Maxime Lagacé

YouTube - RSA Animate - Drive - 2 views

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  • Maxime Lagacé on 19 May 10
     
    Excellent video on "how to motivate people"
Maxime Lagacé

Psych Basics | Psychology Today - 2 views

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    Good Links about Psychology from PsychologyToday.com
Maxime Lagacé

Soren Gordhamer: The Rise and Benefits of Mindfulness - 3 views

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  • Maxime Lagacé on 11 Jun 10
     
    Benefits of meditation. Good examples
Maxime Lagacé

Nature Boosts Self-Evaluation of Vitality: Scientific American Podcast - 0 views

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    People report that spending time in nature increases their feelings of energy and vitality. And it looks like nature is the key, not just the physical activity one often engages in when outside. Karen Hopkin reports
Maxime Lagacé

Keep your fingers crossed: How superstition improves performance - 3 views

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  • Maxime Lagacé on 13 Jul 10
     
    New research shows that having some kind of lucky token can actually improve your performance - by increasing your self-confidence.
Maxime Lagacé

Does Too Much Media Make our Kids Sick? | Psychology Today - 1 views

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  • Maxime Lagacé on 30 Aug 10
     
    Does Too Much Media Make our Kids Sick? The new couch potato: Internet Inflation
Leigh Newton

The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind - Fireside Learning: Conversat... - 1 views

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  • Leigh Newton on 18 Sep 10
     
    Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
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Neuromarketing - Ads That Whisper to the Brain - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Neuromarketing’s raison d’être derives from the fact that the brain expends only 2 percent of its energy on conscious activity, with the rest devoted largely to unconscious processing.
  • Add all those electrical patterns together, he says, and “you find it represents the whispers of the brain.”
Maxime Lagacé

Focus On Fun Gets Teens Active - British Psychological Society - 0 views

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  • Emphasising the emotional benefits of exercise is more effective at increasing levels of physical activity than highlighting traditional health benefits. This is the finding of research published online today, 17th February 2010, in the British Journal of Health Psychology.
  • Some teens received text messages that highlighted either the emotional benefits of exercise - such as 'Physical activity can make you feel cheerful. What activity will you do today?' , a second group received texts that highlighted the physical benefits, such as - 'Physical activity can keep your heart healthy. What activity will you do today?'
  • Maxime Lagacé on 18 Feb 10
     
    "Physical activity can make you feel cheerful" vs "Physical activity can keep your heart healthy"
Maxime Lagacé

Zen Meditation: Thicker brains fend off pain - 0 views

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  • People can reduce their sensitivity to pain by thickening their brain, according to a new study published in a special issue of the American Psychological Association journal
  • central brain regions that regulate emotion and pain were significantly thicker in meditators compared to non-meditators
  • Maxime Lagacé on 24 Feb 10
     
    People can reduce their sensitivity to pain by thickening their brain.
Maxime Lagacé

We Are Social Creatures: The Power of Others to Support Our Habits | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • The implication for personal habits and habit change is clear: Others get used to our habits.
  • What this means for habit change: When you start to change one of your habits, it will be disturbing to those around you. After all, they've come to expect certain behaviors from you and now they can no longer expect them. That will be upsetting to people who are close to you, even if they are expressing their support.
  • Your attempt to change a habit means that others will need to work at their lives too.
  • Maxime Lagacé on 05 Mar 10
     
    To change ourselves, we must change our habits AND peoples' expectations about our habits.
Maxime Lagacé

How to Raise an Olympic Athlete | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • Maxime Lagacé on 04 Mar 10
     
    Focus on their happiness, Foster self-discipline, Practice, practice, practice, Also practice dealing with failure, Eat dinner together
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