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Daniel Kahneman makes an important point, one rarely addressed so directly in academic circles -- that the ego-clashes we tend to excuse among high-achievers are dangerously counterproductive when it comes to advancing human knowledge. He proposes adversarial collaboration as one alternative. 
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Matthew Hutson, author of The Seven Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane, argues that superstition has been so evolutionarily advantageous to our species that our brains are hardwired to persist in irrational beliefs against all evidence to the contrary. More on SUPERSTITION: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?q=superstition
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Sara Mednick, a psychologist at UC San Diego, talks about how napping improves mind and memory...
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How do you spend your time? And do you reminisce about the past, or plan for the future?
Consider thinking patterns of yourself and others with the following animation video.
Includes interesting perspectives on how to deal with other people. Via Kenneth Mikkelsen
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Acclaimed author and illustrator Matthew Johnstone reveals how simple daily practices can help us be more present, more positive, have better health and greater clarity.
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Learn about children and materialism in this child psychology video from Howcast.
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When Nancy Lublin started texting teenagers to help with her social advocacy organization, what she found was shocking -- they started texting back about their own problems, from bullying to depression to abuse. So she's setting up a text-only crisis line, and the results might be even more important than she expected. Articles about TEDTalks: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=TEDTalks
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Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit, describes the powerful neurological 'habit loops' that underlie much of what people, corporations and societies do. Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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Mark stops taking his medication.Create your own ending to the film at www.schizophrenia24x7.com...
Abigail Black's curator insight,
December 9, 2014 3:36 PM
This video was short but did a great job of depicting the symptoms of schizophrenia and touched on things that can be done with help people with this disorder, such as, taking their medication and being aware that there are people and resources that can help them. This video depicted some delusions, which are false beliefs of reality (Lilienfeld, 2010) This video is a reasonable source of showing what its like for a schizophrenic and depicted very well the symptoms of this disorder. It stated how sometimes people are okay with this order, but can spiral out of control in an instance. It showed how the anxiety can cause distance between people and those that they care about. The stick figure in this video was a boy but did not account for how the disorder effects men and women. There was no account for gender differences or sexual orientation.
References:
Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S.J., Ruscio, J., & Beyerstein, B. (2010). 50 great myths of popular psychology: Shattering
Jessica James's curator insight,
December 10, 2014 12:00 AM
1. This was an effective simple way to describe schizophrenia. It is fun to watch but also informative. 2. They say that Mark stopped taking his meds and sometimes he's okay when he doesn't but sometimes it gets bad. That suggests that the meds do help (Tartakovsky, 2010). It also shows him hallucinating a wolf chasing him and a whale eating him. That correlates with what Myers (2014) says, that schizophrenia can lead to hallucinations and anxiety about things that only the victim of the illness can see or feel (Myers, 2014). 3. There was no diversity that was addressed in this video. 4. Myers, D. G. (2014). Exploring psychology in modules: With dsm5 update. S.l.: Worth Pub.
Tartakovsky, M. (2010). Illuminating 13 Myths of Schizophrenia. Psych Central. Retrieved on November 30, 2014, from http://psychcentral.com/lib/illuminating-13-myths-of-schizophrenia/0002709
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While debating culture and cognition in a psychology lab at Northwestern University, five scientists noticed a striking diversity in the way people tied their shoes.
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Michael Ellsberg, author of "The Education of Millionaires" and "The Power of Eye Contact," discusses the importance of a "soft gaze."
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"You have created the stress-inducing boss," says Buddhist teacher Kadam Morten.
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During the live question and answer session at Hallucinations with Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist was asked, “What if we could stop all hallucinations?
Sakis Koukouvis's insight:
Featuring Oliver Sacks Neil deGrasse Tyson
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In The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, acclaimed journalist Charles Duhigg investigates the neuroscience of habit and explains how habit loops are formed in the brain.
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Virginia Woolf, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe—teetering on the thin line between madness and genius, they contributed to the world some of the greatest works of literature at the cost of their own mental vitality. Even they suspected a link between the moments of crystal clear lucidity amongst their disordered emotions. Is science finally gaining ground on this dark connection?
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Find out if chiropractic helps relieve stress in this video from Howcast. Subscribe the Howcast Health Channel: http://howc.st/HOE3aY The Howcast Health Ch...
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According to Cohen, narcissism makes us "unknowingly inherently selfish because we’re always thinking about me." This cultivates, he says, "a very materialistic relationship to life" and to other people. NARCISSISM: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?q=narcissism
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Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don't go as planned.
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Shawn Achor is an expert in positive psychology and the CEO of Aspirant, a Cambridge-based consulting firm which researches positive outliers—people who are well above average—to understand where human potential, success, and happiness intersect. Via Sandeep Gautam
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Stanford anthropology professor Tanya Luhrmann has spent ten years studying how evangelical Christians train themselves to hear the voice of God. Articles about ANTHROPOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=anthropology
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To Kandel, the research reflects a larger truth: that consciousness and decision-making, what we know of as the human mind, arises in the brain: "All mental functions, from the most trivial reflex to the most sublime creative experience, come from the brain." Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=1&tag=neuroscience
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In Emotional Equations, Conley takes the mathematics of human happiness a step further, creating simple formulas like despair = suffering - meaning, which, when used systematically, he says, can give individuals and organizations a concrete method for addressing the human needs that drive them.
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Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, he proposes a provocative answer.
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The placebo effect is an interesting area of study. Personally, what's weird to me is that even though I am aware of the effect, that brand name ibuprofen and generic ibuprofen are pretty much the same, I cannot take generic ibuprofen tablets because they don't work on me (after several attempted I simply gave up and just stuck with brand name).
This video shares some interesting aspects of placebo effects.