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How to Fight Excessive Doubt

Posted on July 25, 2012 by kwc

PsyBlog spring.org.uk Should you really question everything? Here’s a simple tip for those prone to over-thinking… A little critical, analytical thinking is a good thing. Without doubting ourselves sometimes we’d find it difficult to make good decisions. Too much doubt, … Continue reading →

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Facebook vs Face-to-Face: How Technology Threatens Parent-Child Interaction

Posted on July 21, 2012 by kwc

Lauren Lowry hanen.org “We have to learn to live with [technology] in a healthy way, according to our human values. And our human values are not to put our kids fifth, after texts, e-mail, Twitter, and everything else” I’ve done … Continue reading →

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Fracking forces eviction of entire Pennsylvania trailer park

Posted on July 13, 2012 by kwc

RT.com An entire community in central Pennsylvania is being ordered to find new homes after a fracking operation has forced dozens of low-income earning residents to try to relocate from a local trailer park. Nearly three-dozen families lived in Jersey … Continue reading →

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Climate Change Bureaucrats Jetsetting The World In Luxury At Our Expense

Posted on July 11, 2012 by kwc

Tim Andrews taxpayers.org.au In just two weeks Aussie families will be slugged with a carbon tax to pay for a ‘green utopia’. But where is this money really going? And are our carbon tax bureaucrats practicing what they preach? We … Continue reading →

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The Psychology of Flow (in under 300 words)

Posted on June 28, 2012 by kwc

PsyBlog spring.org.uk What is it like to be fully alive, right now, engaged with what you are doing? That’s the psychology of flow. When the happiness and creativity expert Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was studying how painters work, he noticed an odd … Continue reading →

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Psychological Distance: 10 Fascinating Effects of a Simple Mind Hack

Posted on June 20, 2012 by kwc

PsyBlog spring.org.uk This mind hack is simple: you imagine yourself way off in the future, or living in a different country or as a different person. The aim is to have that feeling of detachment, of stepping outside yourself, by … Continue reading →

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Destructive Daydreams: Why Wishful Thinking is Dangerous

Posted on June 15, 2012 by kwc

PsyBlog spring.org.uk They say that if you can believe it and dream it, then you can make it come true. It’s clearly not that easy. Indeed psychological research shows that wishful thinking can damage our drive to reach goals: “The … Continue reading →

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The Hindsight Bias: I Knew It All Along!

Posted on June 7, 2012 by kwc

PsyBlog spring.org.uk Going into business for yourself is scary. Despite all the potential rewards, compared with getting a safe job with a big firm, being an entrepreneur means accepting huge risks. All entrepreneurs know that there are no guarantees and … Continue reading →

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The Ultimatum Game

Posted on May 29, 2012 by kwc

PsyBlog spring.org.uk Sometimes games have a lot to teach us about human nature, other times they’re just games. One game that some economists and psychologists claim has much to teach us is called The Ultimatum Game. The game is very … Continue reading →

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RSA Animate – Language as a Window into Human Nature

Posted on May 28, 2012 by kwc

Steven Pinker RSA In this new RSAnimate Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings. Taken from the RSA’s free public events programme www.thersa.org/events.

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