[Wherein our hero examines the influence of colour on competitiveness for an upcoming tournament. Repost] I’ll need to provide a little context: For the last 10 or 11 years I have studies Taekwon-Do. No, no, not the stuff you see in the Olympics – but a real martial art, you know [where they use their hands [...]... Dijkstra, P., & Preenen, P. (2008) No effect of blue on winni
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September 17, 2010
…Roses are Red, Violence is Blue
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September 15, 2010
What to do when feeling low, grumpy or fatigued…
Yesterday I wrote about emotion regulation and how this is seen as an essential part of achieving good mental health. Emotion regulation is about being able to monitor, judge, and work with emotional responses in order to achieve goals. People with chronic pain often experience a range of negative emotions – pain itself is characterised … Read more... BERKING, M., W
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September 13, 2010
…Loan me a dollar and we’ll both feel good
[Wherein our Hero muses why money buys happiness so easily, and why it might also buy power, independence and sense of perspective.] So I’ve just come back from The Philippines. It was relatively rushed holiday, given that we were invited over rather than having planned to go for a fair period. As such we had [...]... Dunn EW, Aknin LB, & Norton MI. (2008) Spending money on others p
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September 8, 2010
August 25, 2010
…The Big-5 and you: What others take from your personality scores
[Wherein our hero discusses the Big-5 personality traits, and how they correlate with other trait factors. Provided are links to Big-5 personality test so you can compare your own scores] I’m of the opinion free will doesn’t exist. The more I learn the more it appears that those things I consider to be ‘me’, are [...]... Petrides, K., Vernon, P., Schermer, J., Ligt
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August 23, 2010
…like the cut of a knife
So a few things. 1) Sorry I’m late today with my post. 2) Sorry for the quality of the post. 3) I have a good reason… I’m heading over The Philipinnes on the third of the next month for a week and I’m working frantically to get all my assignments done before that date. Chief [...]... Dewall CN, Macdonald G, Webster GD, Masten CL, Baumeister RF, Powell C, Combs D, S
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August 10, 2010
August 9, 2010
…Why we’ll never have a Winter of Love or a Summer of Discontent
Some time ago I made this post - it was my preamble to my own personal caffiene exploration. At the end of it, I wrote the following in italics: And on a side note: I remember reading some time ago that warm drinks make people feel good. Or at least dial up their positive affect. I [...]... Ijzerman H, & Semin GR. (2009) The thermometer of social relations: mapping social proximity on tem
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August 2, 2010
…Who awards the ‘No Duh’s'?
A few moons ago I participated in some research for (then) PhD student Richard Ronay. Soon afterwards, I appeared as a student in a filmed report documenting some of his research for the science-themed news programme – Catalyst. I post about it here and here. At the time of filming I was fairly unimpressed with [...]... Ronay, R., & Hippel, W. (2010) The Presence of an Attractive Wo
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July 30, 2010
…Happiness, Fatness, and Pizza
I’ve always wanted to create a meme. Something that I can just devise, and watch it spread like a virus. And I didn’t realize it until recently (though it was lurking in the back of my mind) that I’m fascinated by networks – how information is spread from person to person, and how each person [...]... James H. Fowler, & Nicholas A. Christakis. (2009) Cooperative Be
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