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Maxime Lagacé

Are you addicted to something? Video - 0 views

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    Dr. Joseph Dispenza (from the movie "What the Bleep") explains (using animation) what are addictions and the role of our emotional states.
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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      In other words, to be happy, we need to feel important and feel we progress toward something important to us.
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    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

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?'
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    "Physical activity can make you feel cheerful" vs "Physical activity can keep your heart healthy"
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.
Leigh Newton

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

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    Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Cammy Torgenrud

Educational Leadership:Closing Opportunity Gaps:The Myth of Pink and Blue Brains - 0 views

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  • Few other clear-cut differences between boys' and girls' neural structures, brain activity, or neurochemistry have thus far emerged, even for something as obviously different as self-regulation.
  • Our actual ability differences are quite small. Although psychologists can measure statistically significant distinctions between large groups of men and women or boys and girls, there is much more overlap in the academic and even social-emotional abilities of the genders than there are differences (Hyde, 2005). To put it another way, the range of performance within each gender is wider than the difference between the average boy and girl.
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  • Baby boys are modestly more physically active than girls (Campbell & Eaton, 1999). Toddler girls talk one month earlier, on average, than boys (Fenson et al., 1994). Boys appear more spatially aware (Quinn & Liben, 2008).
  • Avoid stereotyping
  • Appreciate the range of intelligences
  • Strengthen spatial awareness
  • Engage boys with the word
  • Recruit boys into nonathletic extracurricular activities
  • Bring more men into the classroom
  • Treat teacher bias seriously
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.
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