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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
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How Superstitions Improve Performance - PsyBlog - 0 views

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    Experiments reveal that simple superstitions like lucky charms can improve motor and cognitive performance.
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Toddlers and TV: Early exposure has negative and long-term impact - 0 views

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    Very possible effects : future decrease in classroom engagement and success at math, increased victimization by classmates, have a more sedentary lifestyle, higher consumption of junk food and, ultimately, higher body mass index.
Maxime Lagacé

Hypnosis: An Underused Technique | Psychology Today - 1 views

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  • Maxime Lagacé on 24 Apr 10
     
    Hypnosis helps tremendously with many mental health conditions.
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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.
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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    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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    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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shared by Maxime Lagacé on 24 Feb 10 - Cached
  • 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

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.
Maxime Lagacé

Are you addicted to something? Video - 0 views

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  • Maxime Lagacé on 19 Feb 10
     
    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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