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    Are you a consumer or a creater ?
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Babies are born to dance, new research shows - 1 views

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  • Researchers have discovered that infants respond to the rhythm and tempo of music and find it more engaging than speech
  • Maxime Lagacé on 16 Mar 10
     
    Researchers have discovered that infants respond to the rhythm and tempo of music and find it more engaging than speech.
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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.
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How to Raise an Olympic Athlete | Psychology Today - 0 views

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    Focus on their happiness, Foster self-discipline, Practice, practice, practice, Also practice dealing with failure, Eat dinner together
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Everyday noise is killing us | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • What is less well known is that our noisy Western way of life is harming each and every one of us, not only by damaging our hearing, but by boosting stress levels to the point where our general physical and psychological health is affected.
  • can boost stress hormones, blood pressure, arterial hypertension, and heart rates
  • all of us need, to some extent, to create a personal silence
  • Maxime Lagacé on 02 Mar 10
     
    Everyday noise increases your stress.  Learn to create personal silence and relax.
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ChangeCycle.com - 0 views

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    How we evolve, from loss to doubt, to discomfort, to discovery, to understanding and integration. The Change Cycle™ Model
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Observations: Surprised? How the brain records memories of the unexpected - 0 views

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  • human brain is specially tuned to remember things that are out of the ordinary
  • Only relevant information receives a 'memory boost' by the reward system, which includes the nucleus accumbens," he noted, so people are more inclined to remember incidents from which they might learn something new
  • Maxime Lagacé on 24 Feb 10
     
    The human brain is specially tuned to remember things that are out of the ordinary
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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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For many Vancouver Olympics athletes, sports psychology is key / The Christian Science ... - 1 views

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  • They rely on it to build their confidence, their belief in their training and their own capabilities
  • That includes breathing exercises – like yoga, but not, he says – and sessions both with the psychologist and alone. “Also some visualizing,” he adds. “I try to visualize every possible situation – with wind, with fog, with people around me. Sometimes it stresses me when people are around me, when they pass me very fast.”
  • Maxime Lagacé on 23 Feb 10
     
    Think what you will, but many Vancouver Olympics athletes now rely heavily on sports psychologists to help them focus and perform at their best.
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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.
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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.
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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"
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Psych Basics | Psychology Today - 2 views

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    Good Links about Psychology from PsychologyToday.com
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The Dramatic Rise of Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents: Is It Connecte... - 4 views

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  • Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past fifty to seventy years.
  • Rates of anxiety and depression among children and adolescents were far lower during the Great Depression, during World War II, during the Cold War, and during the turbulent 1960s and early ‘70s than they are today. The changes seem to have much more to do with the way young people view the world than with the way the world actually is.
  • One thing we know about anxiety and depression is that they correlate significantly with people's sense of control or lack of control over their own lives.
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  • Twenge cites evidence that young people today are, on average, more oriented toward extrinsic goals and less oriented toward intrinsic goals than they were in the past. For example, a poll conducted annually of college freshmen shows that most students today list "being well off financially" as more important to them than "developing a meaningful philosophy of life," while the reverse was true in the 1960s and '70s.
  • Twenge suggests that the shift from intrinsic to extrinsic goals represents a general shift toward a culture of materialism, transmitted through television and other media. Young people are exposed from birth on to advertisements and other messages implying that happiness depends on good looks, popularity, and material goods.
  • Maxime Lagacé on 27 Jan 10
     
    The education system is bases on accumulation of knowledge, tests, grades.  Children are not happy in that system.  There is a dramatic rise in anxiety and depression.  They should play more to learn better.
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How a Lack of Control Leads to Superstition: Scientific American - 0 views

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  • Lacking Control Increases Illusory Pattern Perception
  • Lacking control is highly aversive, so we instinctive­ly seek out patterns to regain control—even if those patterns are illusory.
  • The sense of control had the apparent effect on physical health and well-being.
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Word Fast/Qwerty: Type Fast Challenge - 0 views

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    Improve your cognitive function - fun game - type fast to destroy enemy
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The Dynamic Duo: Imagination + Knowledge | Psychology Today - 2 views

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  • Study confirms robust daydreaming and superior intelligence are connected.
  • while daydreaming, your thoughts are gliding and ricocheting all over the place--past, present, future--accessing all your stored knowledge, memories, experiences
  • Many brilliant individuals--from Einstein to Mozart--credit their imagination as the source of their creativity and genius.
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  • He famously said: "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
  • Without imagination, knowledge would just be a set of facts and figures going nowhere.
  • Maxime Lagacé on 23 Jan 10
     
    Study confirms robust daydreaming and superior intelligence are connected.
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Free Brain Games | Play Free Online Brain Training Games | Brain Training 101 - 1 views

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    Free Brain Games! Check out our free online brain training games. Play fun logic games, memory games, strategy and many more brain building games!
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Consumers Stop Buying As Number Of Options Increase - 0 views

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  • It is a common belief that having more options is better, and that people tend to go to stores that provide them with more choices. However, a new study in the journal Psychology & Marketing reveals that when people cannot easily determine which option is preferable, they are more likely to leave the store empty-handed.
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