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How to Master Your Emotions
May 14, 2017
In her new book How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, renowned psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett makes a compelling case about the constructed theory of emotions. Unlike the classical theory that posits that emotions are built-in reactions triggered by the environment, Barrett claims that emotions do not happen to us without our volition. Rather, we construct our emotions by making meaning of sensations, and making predictions using our past experiences and our collection of concepts....
May 14, 2017
In her new book How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, renowned psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett makes a compelling case about the constructed theory of emotions. Unlike the classical theory that posits that emotions are built-in reactions triggered by the environment, Barrett claims that emotions do not happen to us without our volition. Rather, we construct our emotions by making meaning of sensations, and making predictions using our past experiences and our collection of concepts....
The Biology of Our Best and Worst Selves
May 14, 2017
How can humans be so compassionate and altruistic — and also so brutal and violent? To understand why we do what we do, neuroscientist...
May 14, 2017
How can humans be so compassionate and altruistic — and also so brutal and violent? To understand why we do what we do, neuroscientist...
High-Conflict Divorce: 3 Lessons Learned From the Couch
May 7, 2017
What is a high-conflict personality? While common terms include “toxic,” “personality disorder,” and “narcissistic,” the general definition is someone who engages in behaviors that reinforce conflict, rather than reduce or resolve conflict. Typically, four behavioral characteristics are associated with high-conflict personalities: All-or-nothing thinking Emotional outbursts Extreme behaviors Blaming others
May 7, 2017
What is a high-conflict personality? While common terms include “toxic,” “personality disorder,” and “narcissistic,” the general definition is someone who engages in behaviors that reinforce conflict, rather than reduce or resolve conflict. Typically, four behavioral characteristics are associated with high-conflict personalities: All-or-nothing thinking Emotional outbursts Extreme behaviors Blaming others
The Case For Running
May 6, 2017
A broad review published last month by medical researchers from across the country makes the case that running is the most effective form of exercise. The review analyzes data from the non-profit Cooper Institute, which is dedicated to researching preventative medicine, and includes results from other recent meta-analyses and large-scale studies that sought to determine the link between physical activity and health. The analysis concludes that runners live three years longer than non-runners,...
May 6, 2017
A broad review published last month by medical researchers from across the country makes the case that running is the most effective form of exercise. The review analyzes data from the non-profit Cooper Institute, which is dedicated to researching preventative medicine, and includes results from other recent meta-analyses and large-scale studies that sought to determine the link between physical activity and health. The analysis concludes that runners live three years longer than non-runners,...
Can Practicing Mindfulness Improve Lawyer Decision-Making, Ethics, and Leadership?
April 23, 2017
To practice mindfulness is to pay attention in a curious, deliberate, kind, and non-judgmental way to life as it unfolds each moment. Mindfulness is currently very fashionable and has been so for sometime now in American business, education, media, medicine, popular culture, and sports. Many American business, law, and medical students, business, law, and medical professors, business, law, and medical schools, business people, lawyers, medical professionals, and business, legal, and medical organizations...
April 23, 2017
To practice mindfulness is to pay attention in a curious, deliberate, kind, and non-judgmental way to life as it unfolds each moment. Mindfulness is currently very fashionable and has been so for sometime now in American business, education, media, medicine, popular culture, and sports. Many American business, law, and medical students, business, law, and medical professors, business, law, and medical schools, business people, lawyers, medical professionals, and business, legal, and medical organizations...
The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel
April 22, 2017
Prior research has shown that the use of social media may detract from face-to-face relationships, reduce investment in meaningful...
April 22, 2017
Prior research has shown that the use of social media may detract from face-to-face relationships, reduce investment in meaningful...
The Effects of Perceived Procedural Justice on Conflict Management
April 21, 2017
In this study, we examined the role that perceived procedural justice (PPJ) plays in the conflict management behaviors that intimate spouses adopt and endorse. In this context, PPJ has been defined as the degree to which one perceives that his or her spouse makes decisions fairly, considerately, and in a participatory manner. To test the impact of perceived procedural justice on conflict resolution behavior, we applied the dual-concern model of conflict management style. In an experiment in which...
April 21, 2017
In this study, we examined the role that perceived procedural justice (PPJ) plays in the conflict management behaviors that intimate spouses adopt and endorse. In this context, PPJ has been defined as the degree to which one perceives that his or her spouse makes decisions fairly, considerately, and in a participatory manner. To test the impact of perceived procedural justice on conflict resolution behavior, we applied the dual-concern model of conflict management style. In an experiment in which...
‘Better Off, as Judged by Themselves’: A Comment on Evaluating Nudges
April 20, 2017
Many nudges are designed to make people better off, as judged by themselves. This criterion, meant to ensure that nudges will increase people’s welfare, contains some ambiguity. It is useful to distinguish among three categories of cases: (1) those in which choosers have clear antecedent preferences, and nudges help them to satisfy those preferences (often by increasing “navigability”); (2) those in which choosers face a self-control problem, and nudges help them to overcome that problem; and (3) those...
April 20, 2017
Many nudges are designed to make people better off, as judged by themselves. This criterion, meant to ensure that nudges will increase people’s welfare, contains some ambiguity. It is useful to distinguish among three categories of cases: (1) those in which choosers have clear antecedent preferences, and nudges help them to satisfy those preferences (often by increasing “navigability”); (2) those in which choosers face a self-control problem, and nudges help them to overcome that problem; and (3) those...
The Artistic Side of Artificial Intelligence
April 15, 2017
Meet Patrick Tresset, a London-based artist. His art practice follows two main paths. On one hand, Tresset presents theatrical installations in which robotic agents are actors. He also crafts the computational systems driving the robots so that their behavior can be perceived as artistic, expressive and even obsessive. These systems are influenced by research into actual human behavior—more specifically, how humans make marks or draw, how humans depict other humans, how humans perceive artwork, and...
April 15, 2017
Meet Patrick Tresset, a London-based artist. His art practice follows two main paths. On one hand, Tresset presents theatrical installations in which robotic agents are actors. He also crafts the computational systems driving the robots so that their behavior can be perceived as artistic, expressive and even obsessive. These systems are influenced by research into actual human behavior—more specifically, how humans make marks or draw, how humans depict other humans, how humans perceive artwork, and...
When Is Ignorance Bliss?
April 11, 2017
A new paper in Psychological Review by Gerd Gigerenzer and Rocio Garcia-Retamero explores the motives of our willful ignorance....
April 11, 2017
A new paper in Psychological Review by Gerd Gigerenzer and Rocio Garcia-Retamero explores the motives of our willful ignorance....
