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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

How we form habits, change existing ones -- ScienceDaily - 0 views

  • When our intentional mind is engaged, we act in ways that meet an outcome we desire and typically we're aware of our intentions. Intentions can change quickly because we can make conscious decisions about what we want to do in the future that may be different from the past. However, when the habitual mind is engaged, our habits function largely outside of awareness. We can't easily articulate how we do our habits or why we do them, and they change slowly through repeated experience. "Our minds don't always integrate in the best way possible. Even when you know the right answer, you can't make yourself change the habitual behavior," Wood says.
  • Forty percent of the time we're not thinking about what we're doing," Wood interjects. "Habits allow us to focus on other things…Willpower is a limited resource, and when it runs out you fall back on habits."
  • The second principle is remembering that repetition is key.
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  • there are three main principles to consider when effectively changing habitual behavior. First, you must derail existing habits and create a window of opportunity to act on new intentions.
  • Wendy Wood explains in her session at the American Psychological Association's 122nd Annual Convention.
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    From Science Daily on how we may form new habits, 8/8/2014, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Andragogy - the Rub - Tagoras - 0 views

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    Blog post by Jeff Cobb, February 2011, Tagoras site, on adults' self-concept of being responsible for their own decisions and how this is as odds with their frequent relapse into their K-12 expectations/habits/behaviors in adult learning situations. Explanation of Malcolm Knowles's concepts of the Adult Learner: 1. Adults need to know why they need to learn. 2. Adults have a self-concept of being responsible for their own decisions - they have a psychological need to be seen by others as capable of self-direction. 3. Experience is often the best foundation for adult learning activities - often the "richest resources for learning reside in the adult learners themselves." [66] 4. Adults tend to be most interested in learning that has immediate relevance to their jobs or personal lives. 5. Adult learners tend to be life-centered (or task-centered, or problem-centered) rather than subject or content-centered. 6. Adults are typically more responsive to internal motivators (job satisfaction, self esteem, quality of life, etc.) than external motivators (promotions, higher salaries, etc.). Excerpt on how online learning environments are not always recognized as such and how facilitation of learning networks is critical: "Finally - something I have been arguing in one way or another for years - the problematic side of "self-concept" pretty much flies out the window if you remove the obvious, traditional labels like "seminar" or "Webinar." This is a key reason why social networks are so powerful as learning environments - people tend not to consciously acknowledge them as such even though learning is typically the key social object in any professional community that survives and thrives over time. Educators must recognize this and learn to facilitate learning within networks if they want to truly lead learning in their fields and industries."
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The Science Behind Using Online Communities To Change Behavior | TechCrunch - 0 views

  • Throughout our research, we find that newly created online communities can change people’s behaviors by addressing the following psychological needs:
  • The Need to Trust.
  • The Need to Fit In.
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  • The Need for Self-Worth.
  • The Need to Be Rewarded for Good Behavior
  • The Need to Feel Empowered.
  • Belonging to a network of people who are changing their own behaviors, support our needs, and are confident in our changing our behavior empowers us and gives us the ability to change our behavior.
  • understanding psychological needs is the core of behavior change and engagement across all domains.
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    blog post by Sean Young, Ph.D., on fostering change in behavior through online comunities, September 28, 2013
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Women 2.0-How Your Posture Can Help You Become a Better Leader - 0 views

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    how posture affects your psychological outlook and image you project
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

In Pursuit of In(ter)dependent Learning: Kio Stark | DMLcentral - 0 views

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    Interview of Kio Stark by Howard Rheingold on interdependent learning, April 2013. See video (15 minutes). Kio Stark wrote a handbook on how to do in(ter)dependent learning--"Don't Go Back to School" From post: "But one important change has erupted in recent decades, enabled by the advent of digital media and networks, that alters the traditional power equation between holders and seekers of knowledge: schools no longer hold the monopoly on learning. When I want to learn how to do something, I can find a video, an Instructable, a blog post, a peer-learning platform. Schooling is still essential for many - perhaps for most - but for independent learners, tools we didn't dream of a generation ago are available through the nearest web-connected device." Excerpt: In our brief video interview, I talked with Stark about what she learned from independent (more properly, we should probably call them "interdependent") learners like "Cory Doctorow about learning to be a working writer, Dan Sinker about learning to code, Quinn Norton about learning neurology and psychology." I suspect that Anya Kamenetz, Kio Stark, and the Peeragogy Project are forerunners of an entire nascent genre about how to learn anything outside of formal schooling.""
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The Benjamin Franklin Effect: The Surprising Psychology of How to Handle Haters | Brain... - 0 views

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    Popova identified the Benjamin Franklin effect in her blog (follows excerpt below in her blog post). The excerpt below reminds of why networks are helpful. "At age twenty-one, he formed a "club of mutual improvement" called the Junto. It was a grand scheme to gobble up knowledge. He invited working-class polymaths like him to have the chance to pool together their books and trade thoughts and knowledge of the world on a regular basis. They wrote and recited essays, held debates, and devised ways to acquire currency. Franklin used the Junto as a private consulting firm, a think tank, and he bounced ideas off the other members so he could write and print better pamphlets. Franklin eventually founded the first subscription library in America, writing that it would make "the common tradesman and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries," not to mention give him access to whatever books he wanted to buy."
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Why We're All Addicted to Texts, Twitter and Google | Psychology Today - 0 views

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    Great article by Susan Weinschenk, Brain Wise: Work better, work smarter, September 11, 2012, and why dopamine keeps us "seeking" when we already have enough information. excerpt: Do you ever feel like you are addicted to email or twitter or texting? Do you find it impossible to ignore your email if you see that there are messages in your inbox? Do you think that if you could ignore your incoming email or messages you might actually be able to get something done at work? You are right!" ... "Instead of dopamine causing you to experience pleasure, the latest research shows that dopamine causes seeking behavior. Dopamine causes you to want, desire, seek out, and search. It increases your general level of arousal and your goal-directed behavior. From an evolutionary stand-point this is critical. The dopamine seeking system keeps you motivated to move through your world, learn, and survive. It's not just about physical needs such as food, or sex, but also about abstract concepts. Dopamine makes you curious about ideas and fuels your searching for information. Research shows that it is the opioid system (separate from dopamine) that makes us feel pleasure." Turn off the cues - One of the most important things you can do to prevent or stop a dopamine loop, and be more productive is to turn off the cues. Adjust the settings on your cell phone and on your laptop, desktop or tablet so that you don't receive the automatic notifications. Automatic notifications are touted as wonderful features of hardware, software, and apps. But they are actually causing you to be like a rat in a cage. If you want to get work done you need to turn off as many auditory and visual cues as possible. It's the best way to prevent and break the dopamine loops. What do you think? How do you deal with dopamine loops? Are you willing to turn off your cues?
Lisa Levinson

PLOS ONE: Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabu... - 0 views

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    Interesting study using Facebook volunteers. The authors analyzed 700 million words, phrases and topic instances from Facebook messages of 75,000 volunteers who took standard personality tests, and found striking variations in language with personality, gender, age. Used an open-vocabulary technique where the data itself drives the exploration of language that found connections not captured with traditional methods. To date, this is the largest study, by order of magnitude, of language and personality.
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    Some interesting findings based on age and gender
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Using RSS to Keep Up With Psychology - Research Guides at Washington University Libraries - 0 views

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    Great page that explains RSS feeds, which ones to consider, and how to set them up. By Melissa Vetter, librarian, August 23, 2013
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Conflict Among Team Members Can Lead to Better Results - 0 views

  • It turns out conflict isn’t always bad. In fact, psychologically it can be extremely positive, especially in a team environment.
  • 1. Inspiring adaptability.
  • 4. Improving productivity.
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  • 3. Championing commitment.
  • 2. Enhancing goal attainment.
  • 5. Embracing constructive change.
  • 6. Creating resolution. 
  • 7. Generating new ideas.
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    article by Sherrie Campbell, Entrepreneur, October 30, 2014 on how to use conflict constructively.
Lisa Levinson

Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives - Brain Pickings - 0 views

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    Maria Popova's blog, brainpickings, on Carol Dweck's work on mindset. Even in children, open or growth mindset is a key factor in learning, while fixed mindset is too focused on being perfect or the best or knowing all the answers. Growth mindset leads to curiosity, learning, exploration, and creativity. Fixed mindsets lead to the status quo and adhering to what exists. Growth mindset sees problems and challenges as growth and learning opportunities, fixed mindset views challenges as failure and underperforming. Great graphic of the 2 mindsets from Dweck's book.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

23 Signs You're Secretly An Introvert - 0 views

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    good exploration of attributes and needs of introverts, Huffington Post, 8.20.2013
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Habits: How They Form And How To Break Them : NPR - 0 views

  • His new book The Power of Habit explores the science behind why we do what we do — and how companies are now working to use our habit formations to sell and market products to us.
  • every habit starts with a psychological pattern called a "habit loop," which is a three-part process. First, there's a cue, or trigger,
  • third step, he says, is the reward: something that your brain likes that helps it remember the "habit loop" in the future.
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  • here's the routine,
  • "You'll put your shoes on in a different order without paying any attention to it," he says, "because once the cues change, patterns are broken up."
  • hat's when Proctor & Gamble reformulated Febreeze to include different scents. "As soon as they did that, people started using it at the end of their cleaning habits to make things smell as nice as they looked," he says. "And what they figured out is that people crave a nice smell when everything looks pretty. Now, no consumer would have said that. ... But companies can figure this out, and that's how they can make products work."
  • On breaking habits
  • On rewards
  • On spirituality and habits
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    NPR interview with Charles Duhigg, on habits, 3/5/2012
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? - The New York Times - 0 views

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    tremendous article by John Tierney on research relating to decision fatigue, August 17, 2011, and willpower.
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