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This two-day conference, supported by the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism (Birkbeck, University of London), Birkbeck College, University of London and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies of the University of Essex, will bring together historians, social theorists and psychoanalysts to explore the impact of the Second World War and totalitarianism on psychoanalysis, and of psychoanalysis on the understanding of the war and totalitarian systems

In an illustration more typical of Pinker's cultural taste, he quotes the opening scene of Woody Allen's movie Annie Hall, when the young Alvy Singer tells a psychiatrist that he won't do his homework because the universe is expanding. If the universe is going to fall apart, he says, what is the point of human existence? "What has the universe got to do with it?" his mother wails at him. "You' re here in Brooklyn! Brooklyn is not expanding!" That kind of reductionism is confusing two levels of analysis," Pinker says. "We have meaning and purpose here inside our heads, being the organisms that we are. We have brains that make it impossible for us to live our lives except in terms of meaning and purpose. The fact that you can look at meaning and purpose in one way, as a neuro-psychological phenomenon, doesn' t mean you can' t look at it in another way, in terms of how we live our lives." The collection of genes known as Steven Pinker made the point most forcibly in How The Mind Works, where he explained his own decision not to have children - which apparently runs counter to the demands of evolution - and says that if his genes don't like it, "they can take a running jump." http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3926387,00.html Steven Pinker

Finnegans Wake James Joyce This web edition published by eBooks@Adelaide. Rendered into HTML by Steve Thomas. Last updated Friday, October 5, 2012 at 16:14. This edition is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/au/). You are free: to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, and to make derivative works under the following conditions: you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the licensor; you may not use this work for commercial purposes; if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the licensor. Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. eBooks@Adelaide The University of Adelaide Library University of Adelaide South Australia 5005

"We're looking at traits that are associated with the way that people process the emotional world and the way that they respond to it," said University of Illinois psychology professor Florin Dolcos, who conducted the study with postdoctoral researcher Sanda Dolcos and University of Alberta postdoctoral researcher Ekaterina Denkova. "We wanted to look not only at how personality traits might influence what and how people remember, but also to examine how that impacts their (subsequent) emotional state.""

Robert Plutchik, an American psychologist and professor, developed an emotion theory from 1960s to 80s. He assumed that all emotions result from eight congenital basic emotions that developed evolutionary. I made an attempt to visualise his theory on a poster during Prof. Matthias Krohn's information mapping seminar at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. The poster was exhibited at the Leipzig Book Fair from March 22nd to 25th, 2007 in the booth of Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. Project description+ at INCOM.org. Download+ a PDF of the poster (A2). By www.markusdrews.com/

IF YOU want to lose weight, convince yourself that everything you eat is highly calorific. It could lower your levels of a hunger hormone, potentially suppressing your appetite. Alia Crum at Yale University and her colleagues gave 46 healthy volunteers the same 380-calorie milkshake but were told it was either a sensible, low-calorie choice or an indulgent, high-calorie one. The team also measured levels of ghrelin - a hormone released by the stomach when we are hungry - before and after participants drank the shake. Ghrelin levels have been shown to spike half an hour before mealtimes and return to normal after eating. Volunteers who thought they had indulged showed significantly greater drops in ghrelin levels than those who thought they had consumed less. The authors suggest that merely thinking that one has eaten something unhealthy can quell hunger pangs and perhaps help curb overeating (Health Psychology, DOI: 10.1037/a0023467). The study shows that food labels can affect consumption in unexpected ways, says David Cummings, an endocrinologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Why are we all so different? Here is a toolkit for finding out what people are really like IN THE 4th century BC, the Greek philosopher Theophrastus, Aristotle's student and successor, wrote a book about personality. The project was motivated by his interest in what he considered a very puzzling question: "Why it has come about that, albeit the whole of Greece lies in the same clime, and all Greeks have a like upbringing, we have not the same constitution of character?" Not knowing how to get at the answer, Theophrastus decided to instead focus on categorising those seemingly mysterious differences in personality. The result was a book of descriptions of personality types to which he assigned names such as The Suspicious, The Fearful and The Proud. The book made such an impression that it was passed down through the ages, and is still available online today as The Characters of Theophrastus. The two big questions about personality that so interested Theophrastus are the same ones we ask ourselves about the people we know: why do we have different personalities? And what is the best way to describe them? In the past few decades, researchers have been gradually answering these questions, and in my new book, Making Sense of People: Decoding the mysteries of personality, I take a look at some of these answers. When it comes to the origins of personality, we have learned a lot. We now know that personality traits are greatly influenced by the interactions between the set of gene variants that we happen to have been born with and the social environment we happen to grow up in. The gene variants that a person inherits favour certain behavioural tendencies, such as assertiveness or cautiousness, while their environmental circumstances influence the forms these innate behavioural tendencies take. The ongoing dialogue between the person's genome and environment gradually establishes the enduring ways of thinking and feeling that are the building blocks of personality. This de

Description of Paul Ekman's work on universal human expressions and microexpressions.

Free Download - StanfordUniversity - January 22, 2009 - Karl Deisseroth is pioneering bold new treatments for depression and other psychiatric diseases. By sending pulses of light into the brain, Deisseroth can control neural activity with remarkable precision. In this short talk, Deisseroth gives an thoughtful and awe-inspiring overview of his Stanford University lab's groundbreaking research in "optogenetics".

Comment of the original texts from which Freud's texts prove a fertility unprecedented in this area and is far from exhausting itself over time. This is the safest way and most rational p ... View More description University of psychoanalysis aimed at the training of analysts. Currently, there is yet no classes, the initiative is at the beginning, then they are psychoanalysts who spontaneously offer a reflection and form a cartel (eg, psychosis) in multilingual spaces. This is a long-term initiative, everything depends on the quality of teachers and the originality of their articles.

"... The intention of the Zionist organization in our university create Jerusalem a chair psychoanalysis meets my most fervent wishes. I also expressed my belief that the choice of Dr. Wulff to represent our young science is a good choice. "

Elerick attempts to interpret what it means to be a Christian in light of Lacan's famous, but asinine, proposition: "I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think." What should be immediately present to everyone who reads the proposition is that it is self-contradictory, for it at once denies the possibility of the individual subject to think itself (or re-present itself to itself) by affirming an inexorable fact about the Self, thereby speaking in absolute and universal terms and negating itself. In other words, if Lacan is right about the nature of the individual self/ego, then he is simultaneously wrong. And if he is wrong, which he is, then why bother with the man anymore?

"It turns out that the milk of human kindness is evoked by something besides mom's good example. ..The study, co-authored by Anneke Buffone of UB and E. Alison Holman of the University of California, Irvine, looked at the behavior of study subjects who have versions of receptor genes for two hormones that, in laboratory and close relationship research, are associated with niceness. Previous laboratory studies have linked the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin to the way we treat one another, Poulin says... "

"Psychologen um Cameron Anderson von der University of California stellten nun die Hypothese auf, dass ein hoher soziometrischer Status, den jemand durch Anerkennung von Seiten seiner Mitmenschen erreicht, mehr zum subjektiven Wohlbefinden beiträgt, als ein durch materiellen Reichtum bedingter hoher sozioökonomischer Status. ... „Ich war überrascht zu sehen, wie stark veränderlich die Effekte waren, die wir beobachteten", sagt Anderson. „Wenn jemand auf der sozialen Leiter auf- oder abstieg, spiegelte sich dies sogar über neun Monate hinweg in dessen subjektivem Wohlbefinden." "

Are you interested in a career in the health and wellness field?  If so, then might like to consider taking a health psychology online or campus-based program.  This page tells you more about health psychology study, helps you to locate suitable university degree programs, and provides information on career prospects.

"20.12.2011 Facebook-Studie Gegensätze stoßen sich ab Facebook-Kontakte weltweit: Meinungen sind kaum ansteckend Freunde teilen meist viele Ansichten - doch warum das so ist, stellt Forscher vor Rätsel... Psychologen fasziniert schon lange, wie homogen es in Freundesgruppen zugeht. In der Schule, am Arbeitsplatz, im Sportverein, im Internet - stets tun sich Menschen zusammen, die viele Haltungen und Geschmäcker miteinander teilen. Warum das so ist, war bislang nicht schlüssig geklärt. Eine Theorie lautet, dass Menschen sich bevorzugt mit solchen Zeitgenossen anfreunden, mit denen sie viele Dinge gemeinsam haben. Eine alternative Erklärung für die Ähnlichkeit unter Freunden ist ein Phänomen, das Netzwerktheoretiker als Ansteckung bezeichnen. Ansichten und Geschmäcker breiten sich demnach unter Freunden ähnlich aus wie Krankheitserreger. Ein amerikanisches Forscherteam hat dieses Henne-Ei-Problem der Freundschaftstheorie nun in einer aufwendigen Studie auf der Plattform Facebook untersucht. Das Team um Kevin Lewis von der Harvard University in Cambridge verfolgte die Entwicklung von 1640 Studenten verschiedener US-Colleges über einen Zeitraum von vier Jahren."

"Die Forscher betonen die enorme Bedeutung dieser empathischen Fähigkeiten: Menschen fällt es damit einfacher bei einem Konflikt die Argumente des Gegenübers zu verstehen und den Streit zu beheben. Dem kommt in unserer heutigen Gesellschaft eine Schlüsselrolle zu, meint Studienleiter Brad Farrant von der University of Western Australien: „Um die Probleme der globalisierten Welt zu lösen, müssen wir alle besser darin werden, uns in die Perspektive anderer Menschen zu versetzen.""

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"mmerhin konnten Verhaltensökonomen auch zeigen, dass Menschen entgegen dem klassischen Menschenbild der Ökonomie auch von sich aus zum altruistischen Bestrafen neigen: Sie investieren Zeit, Mühe und Ressourcen, um das soziale Fehlverhalten anderer Menschen zu ahnden. Sie tun es sogar dann, wenn sie selber kein bisschen davon profitieren. Allerdings verzichten sie gerne auf diese Aufgabe, wenn sich andere Akteure anbieten, die diese unangenehme Arbeit für sie verrichten können, Wissenschaftler nennen dieses Verhalten "social loafing" - soziale Faulheit. Dieses urmenschliche Streben nach Arbeitserleichterung ist nach Ansicht einiger Evolutionstheoretiker zugleich ein wesentlicher Grund für die Entstehung der großen monotheistischen Religionen: Wer könnte die Aufgabe des obersten Polizisten und Richters besser erledigen als ein Gott, der praktischerweise allwissend ist, allmächtig und außerdem immer am besten weiß, wo es moralisch gerade langgeht? Für diese originelle These gibt es erste empirische Belege, etwa aus der ethnologischen Feldforschung. In einer neuen Studie konnte nun ein Forscherteam um die Psychologin Kristin Laurin von der kanadischen University of Waterloo nachweisen, dass sich auch Menschen im Labor mehr oder weniger gemäß der evolutionstheoretischen Hypothese verhalten (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, online)."