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 to forgive but not forget.
Date Posted: December 13, 2014
Categories: Forgiveness
GOStudy 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
GOTeens 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
GOChildren 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
GOBeing 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
GO Is it righties or lefties who earn 10-12% higher salaries?
Dec 11
Categories: Other
GOThe 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
GOAbnormalities in the prefrontal cortex and related brain areas are observed in adolescents who have attempted suicide, according to a report today at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology annual meeting in Phoenix Arizona. The study ...
Dec 10
Categories: Suicide Prevention
GOWant to enhance your memory for facts? Tom Stafford explains a counterintuitive method for retaining information.
Dec 10
Categories: Mental Health Professions
GOAccording to Lominger International (now a Korn/Ferry Company), a competency is "a measurable characteristic of a person that is related to success at work. It may be a behavioral skill, a technical skill, an attribute (such as intelligence), or an ...
Dec 10
Categories: Workplace Issues
GOA psychologist helping a person with social anxiety disorder will often try to convince them that they come over far more positively in social situations than they realise. A new study provides some evidence to back this up. Thomas Rodebaugh and his ...
Dec 9
Categories: Anxiety, Social Isolation
GOThe chemical messenger dopamine – otherwise known as the happiness hormone – is important not only for motivation and motor skills. It seems it can also help neurons with difficult cognitive tasks. Torben Ott, Simon Jacob and Professor Andreas ...
Dec 9
Categories: Learning Difficulties
GOIf you've spent more than about 5 minutes surfing the web, listening to the radio, or watching TV in the past few years, you will know that cognitive training - better known as "brain training" - is one of the hottest new trends in self improvement.
Dec 9
GOAround 350 million people worldwide have depression. Antidepressant medications are often prescribed to treat the condition, alongside talking therapies and lifestyle changes such as regular exercise.But a substantial proportion of people either ...
Dec 8
Categories: Depression
GOWhy do we keep doing and feeling the same things over and over again, even when they aren’t serving us well in any capacity whatsoever? Oh, the madness!
Dec 8
Categories: Attachment Issues, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
GOWe just came across a new and fascinating scientific paper, titled Development and evaluation of a self-administered on-line test of memory and attention for middle-aged and older adults, and published at Frontiers in ...
Dec 8
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues
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