If you're older than 9, it's hard to resist the urge to roll your eyes when someone at the Thanksgiving table suggests, "Let's all go around the room and share what we're thankful for!" It's a pretty corny holiday ritual you mostly do to keep your mom or your most momlike friends happy, but a ...
Date Posted: December 17, 2014
Categories: Happiness
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Steam power sets massive, clunky turbines into motion. Horsepower involves explosions of work, with engines hurtling cars down a freeway. Solar power taps the awesome might of the sun itself and may someday light entire cities.
But willpower seems ...
Dec 17
Categories: Control Issues
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You are what you see and what you choose
Dec 16
Categories: Friendships, Happiness
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How to learn while distracted as if you were totally focused.
Dec 16
Categories: Learning Difficulties
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Regular physical activity may correct the brain's metabolism to stave off dementia
Dec 16
Categories: Health / Illness / Medical Issues
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Does your pace of life in the city impact your health?
Dec 15
Categories: Anxiety, Depression, Health / Illness / Medical Issues, Stress ...
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When you save information digitally, your real memory for that information is worse, but a new study reveals a positive flipside.
Dec 15
Categories: Other
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Five steps to developing personal charisma.
Dec 15
Categories: Self-Confidence
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(Young minds’ edition) A contrast between cognitive abilities and crystallized intelligence.
Dec 13
Categories: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Knowing how to forgive someone is an essential life skill. It serves us well in our love lives and professional relationships.Forgiving and forgetting is great in theory, but in reality it’s difficult. Below are four reasons why it’s important ...
Dec 13
Categories: Forgiveness
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Study associates poor neurocognitive outcomes with variations in genes related to brain inflammation and oxidative stress, highlight potential interventions
Dec 12
Categories: Cancer, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Teens stay up late at night and sleep late into the morning, a result of a natural shift in their circadian rhythms. That biological schedule puts them at odds with the adult world, as well as early start times for high school. But does the mismatch ...
Dec 12
Categories: Sleep Disorders, Stress Management
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Children whose mothers were exposed to higher levels of phthalates, common chemicals in consumer products, in late pregnancy tend to score lower than other kids on intelligence tests at age 7.
Dec 12
Categories: Pregnancy & Birthing
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Being arrogant is a problem because a person "always thinks he/she has the right and only answer [and] discounts or dismisses the input of others" (Lombardo & Eichinger, 1998, p. 447). Some causes of arrogance include: lack of feedback, like own ...
Dec 11
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Is it righties or lefties who earn 10-12% higher salaries?
Dec 11
Categories: Other
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The study by Scott C. Bunce, PhD, of Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, and colleagues provides evidence of "physiological re-regulation" of disrupted brain and hormonal responses to pleasurable stimuli—both drug- and ...
Dec 11
Categories: Drug Addiction
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