Stress wreaks havoc on the mind and body. For example, psychological stress is associated with greater risk for depression, heart disease and infectious diseases. But, until now, it has not been clear exactly how stress influences disease and health. A research team led by Carnegie Mellon University's Sheldon Cohen has found that chronic ...
Date Posted: April 3, 2012
GOBarbara and Jack got married twenty-four years ago. Barbara is fifty-one and Jack is fifty-two. Their oldest daughter is in college and their younger daughter, a high school senior, is soon going off to college as well. Over the years Barbara and ...
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"...My husband and I have four daughters and he has had two recent heart attacks. He has six stents and a handful of "false alarm" hospitalizations for chest pain, most of which follow arguing type situations. His current risk factors are ...
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A week ago, The New York Times magazine ran an article on what psychologists call “posttraumatic growth.” An experience that can purportedly occur subsequent to severe life trauma, it might be best titled “The Oprah Moment” for ...
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The documentary "Bully," which opens today, shows Alex Libby being pushed, poked and ridiculed.
At one point in the film he says, “They push me so far that I want to become the bully."
It takes a hard, close look at the bullied and the ...
Apr 2
GOConventional wisdom tells us that in the business world, "you are who you know" -- your social background and professional networks outweigh talent when it comes to career success. But according to a Tel Aviv University researcher, making the right ...
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I’ve struggled to find something meaningful to say about the incident when the captain of a jetBlue flight suffered from what appeared to be a “nervous breakdown,” resulting in his eventual restraint and later, criminal charges. I think ...
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“Susan, I’d like to have a word with you about that incident during my talk about employee engagement the other day. Please, come on down to my office at about 3:00. You know which one it is? The big one on the corner with all the windows. I ...
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The dramatic influence of rapidly growing social media, computers, telephony, television, movies and the internet continue to surprise us all. Among the most fascinating developments is what we are learning from brain research using Magnetic ...
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Does teamwork always enhance the performance of organisations? It might seem like a question that's too obvious to ask. Practically every job description ever written demands 'a good team player'.
Teams of all kinds pop up everywhere in ...
Mar 30
GOSchoolteachers who underwent a short but intensive program of meditation were less depressed, anxious or stressed -- and more compassionate and aware of others' feelings, according to a UCSF-led study that blended ancient meditation practices with ...
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It’s an age-old phenomenon: people are guilty of the very fault they find in others. In psychology terms, ethical dissonance. In colloquial terms, the pot calling the kettle black. Recently, a team of psychologists evaluated this complex ethical ...
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Eminent neuroscientist and Nobel laureate Eric Kandel in a recorded livestream from Big Think, interviewed about creativity and the brain, the challenges facing neuroscience research, differences between the brain and computers, imaging, and ...
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Schoolteachers who underwent a short but intensive program of meditation were less depressed, anxious or stressed -- and more compassionate and aware of others' feelings, according to a UCSF-led study that blended ancient meditation practices with ...
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Right now you are breathing. You inhale, you exhale, from birth to death. You can go months without eating, days without drinking, but only a few minutes without breathing. Of course we need oxygen to survive, but breath is also a path to our ...
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