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Mañana

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Time Inconsistent Preferences”The two failures of self-control—the inclinations to procrastinate and to indulge—turn out to be rooted in the same problem: We tend to put too much weight on the here and now when evaluating the costs and benefits of …

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May 15, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Commentary, Life, Psychology | Comments Off 

Eat Happy

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Ever wish there were a happy pill to spritz up your spirits when you’re out of sorts? To make you laugh when you’re feeling down? Or to calm your nerves when you’re about to bite someone’s head off? Well, get this: There are several things in your kit…

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May 10, 2008 | Filed Under , Health, Psychology | Comments Off 

Modern Times: Men Get Headaches Too

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Relate, which provides counselling, sex therapy and relationship education, said there had been a 40 per cent increase in male clients admitting that, despite being physically able to have sex, they can’t be bothered.”"Bell said the problem is ‘partly…

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May 5, 2008 | Filed Under , Isms, Men, Psychology | Comments Off 

Hack Your Brain

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Learning new things actually strengthens your brain — especially when you believe you can learn new things. It’s a virtuous circle: When you think you’re getting smarter, you study harder, making more nerve-cell connections, which in turn makes you ….

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May 4, 2008 | Filed Under , Life, Oddities, Psychology, science | Comments Off 


Mad, Bad & Sad

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“If male doctors conspired to define madness, responding to behaviors that flouted the social conventions of their culture, female patients, in the attempt to understand themselves and their context, and maybe even to create or bolster identity, collud…

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April 28, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Psychology, Women | Comments Off 


The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Multiple intelligences is an educational theory, first developed by Howard Gardner, that describes an array of different kinds of “intelligences” exhibited by human beings. Gardner suggests that each individual manifests varying levels of these differe…

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April 27, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Philosophy, Psychology, science | Comments Off 

Remember Your Meal

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“British scientists have shown that actively remembering your last meal suppresses appetite and reduces the desire to snack on junk food. They have also shown that concentrating on food while eating - rather than grabbing a meal in front of the TV - m…

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April 26, 2008 | Filed Under , Health, Psychology | Comments Off 


Two-Faced

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“How can we tell who’s lying, who’s not? New research out of Stephen Porter’s Forensic Psychology Lab at Dalhousie University determines the face will betray the deceiver’s true emotion, but not in the stereotypical ways we think. It’s not th…

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April 23, 2008 | Filed Under , Psychology | Comments Off 

Two-Faced

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“How can we tell who’s lying, who’s not? New research out of Stephen Porter’s Forensic Psychology Lab at Dalhousie University determines the face will betray the deceiver’s true emotion, but not in the stereotypical ways we think. It’s not th…

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April 23, 2008 | Filed Under , Psychology | Comments Off 

Let’s Spend Time Together

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“We know that the best predictor of human happiness is human relationships and the amount of time that people spend with family and friends. We know that it’s significantly more important than money and somewhat more important than health. That’s w…

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April 22, 2008 | Filed Under , Life, Psychology | Comments Off 

Choice and Self-control

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“From “paper or plastic” to 31 flavors of ice cream, people’s lives are full of choices. Now, new research suggests that facing too many decisions can sap your stamina, your ability to stay focused and even maintain self-control.A number of experiments…

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April 19, 2008 | Filed Under , Psychology | Comments Off 

Perfume : The Guide VS Psychology, or In Defense of What I Love

from Divina @ Fragrance Bouquet

The newest book by Luca Turin and co-author Tania Sanchez has had several online perfume communities abuzz ever since it hit the bookstores. I have not participated in any of those (often) heated discussions because one, I regretfully don’t have the time to post on any fora at the moment, two I don’t actually own the Guide, and three, I am put off by some of the ugliness that is being generated

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April 18, 2008 | Filed Under , Psychology, luca turin, perfume: the guide, tania sanchez | Comments Off 

Happy Blog Hopping

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“They found that regular blog reading can become “an internet ritual,” with the content secondary to the process of checking for new posts. The researchers said this is much like the routine of checking e-mail regardless of whether a new message is exp…

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April 10, 2008 | Filed Under , Life, Psychology | Comments Off 

Memory & Monitoring

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Reconstructive Memory & Source Monitoring”Retrieving something from memory is a reconstructive process. An episode in memory is not stored in one place, but instead, features of the episode are stored all over the brain. Such features might include…

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April 2, 2008 | Filed Under , Commentary, Psychology, science | Comments Off 


Fooling Around

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Psychologists have studied pranks for years, often in the context of harassment, bullying and all manner of malicious exclusion and prejudice. Yet practical jokes are far more commonly an effort to bring a person into a group, anthropologists have fou…

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April 1, 2008 | Filed Under , Laughs, Psychology | Comments Off 

Thinking Hard Is Free of Charge

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Your brain uses less power than your refrigerator light”The brain uses 12 watts of power, about the same amount of energy as in two large bananas. Curiously, even though the brain is very efficient, it’s an energy hog. It is only 3 per cent of the body…

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March 30, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Oddities, Psychology, science | Comments Off 

The Bad of Lads Mags

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Athletica Nervosa”Lads” Magazines have been increasingly successful in recent years, and have attracted criticism for an alleged potential to exploit women rather than cause problems for their readership.Together with colleague Jessica Close, [David Gi…

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March 28, 2008 | Filed Under , Isms, Men, Psychology, Society | Comments Off 

Men’s Interest in Women’s Earning Potential

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM is that men are mainly interested in a woman’s physical features, while women are mainly interested in a man’s earning potential. New research challenges this. Two psychologists carried out a large study of speed-dating, which …

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March 12, 2008 | Filed Under , Isms, Men, Psychology | Comments Off 

Dialog of Mourning

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Wild Blue Yonder, which is getting its U.S. premiere this week at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, is Celia’s journey to come to terms with her late father, legendary documentarian David Maysles, who, along with his brother, Al…

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March 12, 2008 | Filed Under , Commentary, Film, Psychology | Comments Off 


The Power of Expectations

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

The Wine Experiment”Expectations have long been a topic of psychological research, and it’s well known that they affect how we react to events, or how we respond to medication. But in recent years, scientists have been intensively studying how expectat…

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March 1, 2008 | Filed Under , Psychology, science | Comments Off 

Illness of Thought

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Depression: Shades of Healing”Aristotle believed depression to be of great value because of the insights it could bring. There is also an increased empathy in people who have or have had depression, he says, because they become more attuned to other pe…

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February 29, 2008 | Filed Under , Commentary, Psychology, Society | Comments Off 

Makeup: the Humanizing Effort

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“That women still want to wear makeup reflects a failure of the feminist movement in particular and the immaturity of our culture in general. Makeup is a mask that allows women to tap into corporate power. I don’t mean corporate as in business, but rat…

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February 28, 2008 | Filed Under , Isms, Psychology, Style, Women | Comments Off 

Fun: the New Core Value

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Funsultants & Funcilitators”Any Genesis subscriber knows that hard toil was originally conceived as a curse. God broke the news to Adam that he’d be forced to stop lounging naked while snacking on fresh fruit—that meals would now be served by t…

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February 27, 2008 | Filed Under Oddities, Psychology, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Prozac: Precarious Placebo

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“An analysis of dozens of studies involving thousands of patients revealed that some of the most widely-prescribed anti-depressants work little better than dummy pills. The drugs studied - including Prozac, Seroxat and Efexor - were little more effect…

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February 26, 2008 | Filed Under Health, Isms, Psychology | Comments Off 

Your Cultural IQ

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Sizing Up Cultural Intelligence”Here are sample statements used to measure cultural intelligence. Subjects are asked whether they strongly agree, agree, disagree or strongly disagree. A) I am good at understanding other people’s feelings. B) I accept d…

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February 25, 2008 | Filed Under Psychology, Society, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Study For Metamorphosis

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Jeremy Bailenson and Nick Yee of Stanford University had this and other classic studies in mind when they started wondering about the effect of being able to alter one’s appearance. They weren’t going to study wardrobe choices, however. Their quarry i…

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February 25, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Dreamscape, Life, Psychology | Comments Off 

The New Black

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Mourning, Melancholia & Depression”Darian Leader, in his compelling and important new book, suggests we need to redefine depression “as a set of symptoms that derive from complex and always different human stories”. He states that “to treat a depre…

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February 22, 2008 | Filed Under Books, Life, Psychology | Comments Off 

Nap Power

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Just before sleep, the brain “replays” recent events, producing dreamlike sensations and “crazy” thoughts, says Dr Stickgold. He suggests that this could explain the benefit of the power nap.This short period of “thought marshalling” rather than prolo…

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February 21, 2008 | Filed Under Dreamscape, Health, Psychology | Comments Off 

Control Your Inner Mad Dog

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“[A]nger management courses could help wounded people to leave hospital sooner.”"An American team has found that being unable to control and vent anger harms healing, according to a study published in the journal Brain Behavior and Immunity by Jean-Phi…

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February 20, 2008 | Filed Under Health, Psychology | Comments Off 

How Not To Be A Jerk

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“I’ve learned that competition breeds assholes, so it’s essential to try not to foster an overly competitive workplace. Many organizations constantly rate and rank people, giving the spoils to a few stars and treating the rest as second- and third-clas…

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February 20, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Commentary, Psychology, Society | Comments Off 

Siren’s Call

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“MUSIC has the power to delight the listener, improve well-being and uplift the soul. But sounds have more malign uses too. The beauty of the music produced by the Sirens of ancient Greek legend drew unwary sailors to their doom on the rocks. And in Br…

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February 18, 2008 | Filed Under Health, Life, Music, Psychology, Urbanities | Comments Off 


How System Threat Affects Cupid

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“System justification theorists have found that when an individual’s socio-political system is threatened, the person will restore his faith in the system by engaging in psychological processes that bolster the system’s legitimacy. One important w…

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February 15, 2008 | Filed Under Isms, Psychology, Society | Comments Off 

Mimicry: the Charm of Synchronicity

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“One reason subtle mimicry is so instantly beguiling may be that it draws on and, perhaps, activates brain circuits involved in feelings of empathy. In several studies, Jean Decety, a neuroscientist at the University of Chicago, has shown that some of…

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February 14, 2008 | Filed Under Psychology | Comments Off 

The Orgasm Ceiling

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Komisaruk’s lab has also studied the brains of women who say they can bring themselves to orgasm with thought alone. For some it’s a sexual thought that does the trick, he says, but for others it’s more abstract - something that has to do with focusin…

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February 12, 2008 | Filed Under Health, Philosophy, Psychology, science | Comments Off 

Familiarity Breeds Contempt?

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“”[N]egativity is a normal aspect of close relationships that include a great deal of daily contact.” Rather than breeding unhappy couples and ill health, the increase in negativity could be a normal part of relationships. “Because we found that patter…

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February 11, 2008 | Filed Under Life, Psychology | Comments Off 

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