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The Psychologist and the Serial Killer | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • they can provide informed estimates about whether someone is likely to act out.
  • Fantasy – the person imagines scenarios for entertainment or self-comfort
  • Dissociation – the person avoids uncomfortable feelings and memories
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  • Compartmentalization – the person relegates different ideas and images to specific mental frames and keeps boundaries between them
  • At the other end of the continuum is a very destructive process that can result in violence.”
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Optimism Challenge Conclusion | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • the struggle to be optimistic is a difficult one, and it is not mastered all at once. 
  • ach new situation is a new opportunity to begin again, to develop that more positive frame of mind that enables the belief that life is worth living.
  • I do care about the people who, right now, are lying on the couch because they are disabled by depression. 
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  • y embracing an optimistic point of view, on purpose, of my own volition, I avoid some of the worst consequences of a despairing outlook. 
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Why Should We Grieve the Death of a Wild Animal? | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • grief is the price we all pay for love. 
  • The animal had given us nothing and had taken nothing from us in return.
  •   It is as if our discovery constitutes an encounter that reminds us of the interconnectedness of life. 
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  • Private experiences that defy sharing can deepen our ability to explore and appreciate our interior life. 
  • Coming upon the death in the wild can engage us in confronting the universality and inevitability of death.
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He Said, She Said, and a Videotape | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • Acknowledge that your memory is in error. Simply say that you misremembered. If General Kelly asks me, apologizing is what I would recommend.
  • Sometimes we make honest mistakes. Given my knowledge of how fragile memory is, I prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt (here’s another post in which I suggested a public figure may have had a memory error).
  • Maybe he particularly thinks these things for representatives with whom he disagrees, such as Representative Wilson.
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  • Probably there are lots of people who have lied to support their bosses.
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Why Being Yourself Is Not Good Advice | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • Authentic people know themselves, own themselves, and be themselves.
  • Advising someone who doesn’t seem to know themselves and who doesn’t take responsibility to just be themselves isn’t helpful to that person as they won’t know what it means. They might even feel encouraged in their bad habits. 
  • know yourself + own yourself + then be yourself.
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3 Steps to Giving Difficult (and Unwanted) Advice | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • But what if they're going merrily on their way, not realizing the impact their behavior has on others, or themselves?
  • it seems as though marketers are enticing almost all young women to reveal more skin.
  • Clearly, when you care about people, there are times when you need to offer painful advice. But how do you balance your good intentions against the possible harm they might cause, especially when your advice is unsolicited?
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  • the best advice begins with an expression of emotional support.
  • A third option is to dive right in and get the painful moment over with as quickly as possible.
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Why We Fear | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • It is certainly true that we fear some things more than others—snakes, spiders, rats—but this could be the result of conditioning more than programming.
  • These studies have revealed that humans are predisposed to fear snakes and spiders, though there is no universal and firmly programmed fear of them. 
  • Most humans are not born afraid of snakes, but they are much more likely to become afraid of them than they are most other kinds of animals.
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  • The vicarious fear conditioning was not effective when the researchers attempted to train the monkeys to fear flowers.
  • how would they know the flowers weren’t harmful?
  • Then we developed the fear and avoidance of those snakes.
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Why Do We Fear Fear? | HuffPost - 0 views

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  • fear being great or even maybe just fear living life to the fullest.
  • I feel like fear also comes from not living in the moment, but from living in the past and/or the future.
  • Fear is one of the hardest and most painful emotions to overcome.
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  • It contains a heart with smiles and laughter.
  • let it be your friend and just become one with it,
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How Culture Controls Communication - 0 views

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  • Culture is, basically, a set of shared values that a group of people holds.
  • while some of culture’s knowledge, rules, beliefs, values, phobias and anxieties are taught explicitly, most is absorbed subconsciously.
  • Cultures are either high-context or low-context
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  • The determining factor in medium preference may not be the degree of industrialization, but rather whether the country falls into a high-context or low-context culture.
  • . The latter place emphasis on sending and receiving accurate messages directly, and by being precise with spoken or written words.
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'How the French Invented Love' puts history of romance on map - 0 views

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  • the French have shaped our understandings and expectations of love and its discontents for nearly a millennium, from Abélard and Héloise - the star-crossed lovers whose legendary love made them sort of the Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor of their day - to the existential yearnings of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
  • it evolved into an articulated code of conduct, codified in the romances of Lancelot and Guinevere and Tristan and Iseult.
  • . But at its root, love was still seen as a transcendent experience - just not necessarily with your spouse.
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  • Throughout the 19th century and into the 20th, the French idea of love was caught between celebrating l'amour in all its manifestations and cursing its bittersweet legacy of suffering, heartbreak and loss.
  • But Yalom's affection for the simultaneous idealism and pragmatism of l'amour a la française is infectious,
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Why People Play Video Games - 0 views

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  • video games are one of the most seductive of all of these activities because they fulfill our psychological needs more efficiently than almost any other activity.
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      krystalxu on 20 Oct 17
       
      But drug and drink can also bring us the same effect.
  • A game’s narrative makes our choices feel significant enough that we buy into the game emotionally, and the feedback system encourages us to keep working.
  • These highly tuned feedback systems are the key to turning video games into an indispensable tool for bettering our future.
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  • Games are more consistent at rewarding us for the choices we make, and they also provide a diversity of choice that the real world doesn’t provide.
  • Many modern – even violent – games might be better teaching tools than we realize.
  • “I think games can provide a framework for understanding contemporary issues such as governmental budgets and spending,”
  • Building blocks of a better world
  • Aside from the physical benefits of gaming, video games excel at setting clear goals and showing a player’s progression towards those goals.
  • The playful nature of video games lowers the barrier of entry for people to get behind new social causes.
  • When used correctly, video games hold the potential to show us the world through a different set of lenses
  • to craft experiences that engage our mind both cognitively and socially, and ultimately make us feel like an active participant in shaping our destiny.
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      ppl can find more effective ways to achieve these goals. It is like the say "do some work while watching TV" to safe time. How about just stop watching TV and do work more efficiently and in more volume?
  • the human ability to play is so powerful.
  • how they encourage or discourage violence, inspire creativity, or nurture laziness.
  • those who play games feel a need to break free from the mundane slavery of their reality.
  • ones more fantastical than our own
  • enjoy retreats to other realities
  • Immersyve’s complex needs-satisfaction metrics narrow down to three basic categories.
  • desire to seek out control or to feel mastery over a situation.
  • need for competence
  • People like to feel successful, and we like to feel like we’re growing and progressing in our knowledge and accomplishments.
  • video games make us feel more accomplished.
  • need is autonomy
  • the desire to feel independent or have a certain amount of control over our actions.
  • need is relatedness.
  • gamers can fulfill this need for relatedness by playing games with friends online,
  • make us feel more competent, more autonomous, and more related because these experiences make us feel good and keep us mentally healthy.
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Culture, Values and the Impact at Work | Diversity Journal - 0 views

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  • Sometimes one or more cultures may take dominance over another culture, depending on the situation
  • A number of cultural aspects influence the way we interact with other people,
  • Different values lead to different behavior, behavior you may not understand. It is important that we try to learn and appreciate these differences in order to work effectively with people from other cultures.
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  • the French identify with country and family, whereas the Japanese identify with the corporation, and the Irish with the Roman Catholic Church.
  • we adapt our behaviors to fit in with the group.
  • Building trust and commitment across cultures means that you need to use all parts of your cultural intelligence
  • The complexities apart, creating some common ground rules does help building trust and commitment.
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When You Fear Making the "Wrong" Decision - 0 views

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  • “Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.”
  • mind resists all attempts to make any kind of decision at all.
  • immobilized, unable to push through the debilitating fear.
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  • I realized that the issue isn’t about being afraid to go to Korea. The real issue is that I have an overall fear of making the “wrong” decisions in my life.
  • Understand that there are no “wrong” decisions.
  • Listening closely to my fears about Korea made me aware of some pretty negative beliefs I held about myself and doubts I had in my abilities.
  • Make peace with your emotions.
  • I’m hearing the messages my mind, body, and spirit are trying to tell me because I’ve made a conscious decision to listen
  • It really takes the pressure off if you understand that every experience you have, whether you characterize it as “good” or “bad,” is exactly the experience you need to have at that moment. Some choices may lead to more painful lessons than others, but nothing hurts like living in fear.
  • Intuition can use fear to help you grow.
  • Fear is often described as a psychological response to a perceived threat.
  • It only makes sense to avoid things that can potentially harm you.
  • many of us have developed fear from negative experiences in our past.
  • We have built a protective fence around our emotional scars, and learned to ward off anybody or anything that triggers an unconscious fear.
  • The next time you feel fear, embrace it, examine it, and if guided to do so, move boldly toward it.
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Decision Making: Why do we make the wrong choices although we are aware of the right on... - 0 views

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  • you blame yourself for not opting for 7 (which was available to you) forgetting that you would not have known that at time of buying the ticket.
  • Unknown Variables
  • two possibilities based on the information available.
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  • your estimation was not proven to be correct because the price fell as there were more people who were willing to sell than to buy.
  • It is wrong to blame yourself for something which you were not capable of knowing at the time of making decisions.
  • Competitive Atmosphere
  • We win or lose not only on the basis of  how good or bad we performed but also how good or bad our competitors performed.
  • t is futile to blame yourself or the organization in case your expectations are not fulfilled.
  • Compatibility Issues
  • Hasty Decisions
  • We often take decisions based on impulse rather than careful analysis of the pros and cons of taking decisions. 
  • you may have to repent in leisure.
  • You can avoid much failure if you decide after due analysis and due consideration.
  • Choosing Soft Options
  • There is no inherent reason why medicines should taste horrible — but effective ones usually do. Similarly, there is no inherent reason why decisions should be distasteful — but most effective ones are.” 
  • you are sure to pay the price later for buying immediate peace.
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Child Brains Organized Differently Than Adult Brains - 0 views

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  • Instead of having networks made of brain regions that are distant from each other but functionally linked, most of the tightest connections in a child's brain are between brain regions that are physically close to each other.
  • It clearly shows a switch from localized networks based on physical proximity to long-distance networks centered on functionality,
  • "They're trying to solve the task of being a brain in a human body,"
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Nine Ways Falling In Love Makes Us Do Strange Things | HuffPost - 0 views

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  • people who are passionately in love are less able to focus and to perform tasks that require attention.
  • because you spend a large part of your cognitive resources on thinking of your beloved,
  • When you fall in love, the same neural system in your brain linked to cocaine addiction becomes active, giving you that feeling of euphoria.
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  • Love can make you less vulnerable to pain.
  • your heart beats as fast as your partner’s so they’re at the same rate. How romantic.
  • holding hands with the person you love may alleviate pain.
  • men adjust their walking speed to match their romantic partner’s pace
  • brain activated by feelings of intense love are the same areas that drugs use to reduce pain,”
  • people in a committed relationship who have been actively thinking about their partner actually avert their eyes from attractive members of the opposite sex unknowingly
  • men are more willing to take unnecessary risks for a romantic partner.
  • It makes your pupils grow.
  • pupil dilation correlates with intense emotional states
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Why We Get Mad | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • why some people get angry more intensely or more often than others. 
  • always some sort of event that happens right before someone gets angry that serves as the trigger
  • whether or not we get angry in response to a particular situation has to do with how we appraise or evaluate the situation.
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  • personality traits and the pre-anger state.
  • there are certain characteristics that make people more likely to experience anger
  • the preanger state, includes how the person was feeling physiologically and psychologically right before the situation.
  • First, there are the characteristics of the individual
  • our appraisals of the event were very different
  • cognitive appraisal
  • we get angry when we appraise a situation as blameworthy, unjustified, punishable, etc.
  • a person's anger-inducing interpretation or appraisal of a situation isn't necessarily inaccurate.
  • sometimes people are absolutely correct in their appraisal that they have been treated unfairly and, in those cases, anger is a perfectly reasonable emotion to feel.
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How Do We Memorize Things? - 0 views

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  • There are 3 steps to remembering things:1) Encode – get the information into our brains 2) Store – retain the information 3) Retrieve – get the information out
  • 1) Elaborative encodingWe actively relate new information to the information that is already in our memories.
  • 2) Visual encodingWe store information by converting the information into images.
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  • 3) Organizational encodingWe categorize information according to relationships.
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5 things you should know about how your brain learns | Voices From Campus News for Coll... - 0 views

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  • how your brain learns
  • Learning builds on prior knowledge
  • The human brain consists of special cells called neurons
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  • these brain fibers grow
  • fibers connect your brain cells to one another at contact points called synapses.
  • Practice leads to stronger connections in the brain
  • brain fibers can only grow from existing brain fibers.
  • build on information that is already stored in the brain.
  • having a strong understanding of the foundational content in a given subject is essential
  • The larger your brain fibers grow, and the more brain cells they connect, the more information can be stored in your brain.
  • With enough practice, these thickened brain fibers will eventually form double connections to one another.
  • causes your dendrites to grow thicker and to coat themselves with a fatty layer.
  • The fatty coating on brain fibers also speeds up your brain’s ability to process information.
  • solidify that information or ability in your brain more permanently.
  • the brain grows fibers that relate to what you are practicing.
  • , but to also perform that skill yourself. This will help you truly learn it.
  • its general limit is five to seven items.
  • memory can be improved by taking proper care of your brain and body.
  • grouping items together before you try to memorize them.
  • a routine lack of sleep can have detrimental impacts on your health.
  • sleep deprivation can drastically diminish your brain’s ability to take in new information.
  • it is extremely important to get a full night’s rest within the first 30 hours of learning new knowledge.
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NIMH » Depression Basics - 0 views

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  • Depression—also called “clinical depression” or a “depressive disorder”—is a mood disorder that causes distressing symptoms that affect how you feel, think, and handle daily activities, such as sleeping, eating, or working.
  • Two of the most common forms of depression
  • Major depression
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  • Perinatal Depression
  • Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD):
  • Psychotic Depression:
  • Scientists at NIMH and across the country are studying the causes of depression. Research suggests that a combination of genetic, biological, environmental, and psychological factors play a role in depression.
  • Depression can occur along with other serious illnesses, such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and Parkinson’s disease. Depression can make these conditions worse and vice versa.
  • Depression affects different people in different ways.
  • The first step in getting the right treatment is to visit a health care provider or mental health professional, such as a psychiatrist or psychologist
  • Medications called antidepressants can work well to treat depression.
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