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Todd Suomela

PsycNET - Replicating Milgram: Would people still obey today? - 0 views

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psychology obedience authority culture about(StanleyMilgram) experiments

shared by Todd Suomela on 05 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Todd Suomela on 05 Feb 09
     
    The author conducted a partial replication of Stanley Milgram's (1963, 1965, 1974) obedience studies that allowed for useful comparisons with the original investigations while protecting the well-being of participants. (Abstract only for non-subscribers)
Sue Frantz

Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy : Article : Nature - 0 views

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TIPS Cognition Drugs

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  • Sue Frantz on 08 Dec 08
     
    I'm having a hard time thinking this is a good idea. I'd prefer to move toward less reliance on drugs rather than more.
  • Sue Frantz on 08 Dec 08
     
    "In this article, we propose actions that will help society accept the benefits of enhancement, given appropriate research and evolved regulation. Prescription drugs are regulated as such not for their enhancing properties but primarily for considerations of safety and potential abuse. Still, cognitive enhancement has much to offer individuals and society, and a proper societal response will involve making enhancements available while managing their risks."
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Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emoti... - 0 views

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Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music : Nature Neuroscience Publishing Group

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    Music, an abstract stimulus, can arouse feelings of euphoria and craving, similar to tangible rewards that involve the striatal dopaminergic system. Using the neurochemical specificity of [11C]raclopride positron emission tomography scanning, combined with psychophysiological measures of autonomic nervous system activity, we found endogenous dopamine release in the striatum at peak emotional arousal during music listening. To examine the time course of dopamine release, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging with the same stimuli and listeners, and found a functional dissociation: the caudate was more involved during the anticipation and the nucleus accumbens was more involved during the experience of peak emotional responses to music. These results indicate that intense pleasure in response to music can lead to dopamine release in the striatal system. Notably, the anticipation of an abstract reward can result in dopamine release in an anatomical pathway distinct from that associated with the peak pleasure itself. Our results help to explain why music is of such high value across all human societies.
nat bas

Idea transcript: Five Ways to Become Happier Today - Big Think - 0 views

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shared by nat bas on 12 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Question: What can people do each day to be happier? Tal Ben-Shahar: The first thing to do to become happier, paradoxically, is to accept painful emotions, to accept them as a part of being alive.
  • The number one predictor of well-being of happiness is time, quality time, we spend with our family, friends, people we care about and who care about us.
  • Physical exercise contributes a great deal to happiness; in fact, there is research showing that regular exercise, three times a week for 30 to 40 minutes of aerobic exercise, could be jogging or walking or aerobics or dancing, three
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  • So, for example, research by Robert **** and Mike McAuliffe shows that people who keep a gratitude journal, who each night before going to sleep write at least five things for which they are grateful, big things or little things, are happier, more optimistic, more successful, more likely to achieve their goals, physically healthier; it actually strengthens our immune system, and are more generous and benevolent toward others.
  • One of the most important things that we can do in our modern world is to simplify, to do less rather than more. The problem is that we try and cram more and more things into less and less time, and we pay a price.
  • nat bas on 12 Oct 09
     
    This could be useful.
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