Relationships hold the key to giving terminally ill patients the spiritual care they need. However, researchers have pinpointed a mismatch between patients' expectations and understanding when it comes to spirituality, and what medical and family caregivers offer. New recommendations to improve this situation appear in the journal Palliative Medicine, published by SAGE...
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July 26, 2010
The Importance Of Relationships In Spiritual Care
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January 10, 2010
Desire influences visual perception
WE tend to assume that we see our surroundings as they really are, and that our perception of reality is accurate. In fact, what we perceive is merely a neural representation of the world, the brain's best guess of its environment, based on a very limited amount of available information. This is perhaps best demonstrated by visual illusions, in which there is a mismatch between our perception of
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November 16, 2009
Testosterone-status mismatch in a group is linked with reduced collective confidence
Men and women with more testosterone like to be in charge. Indeed, they can find it stressful and uncomfortable when denied the status that they crave. Similarly, people low in testosterone find it uncomfortable to be placed in positions of authority. An intriguing new study has built on these earlier findings, showing a mismatch between testosterone-level and status can have an effect on group f
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May 10, 2009
American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
I was looking over my blog archives when I came across a lecture by Richard Dawkins in which he urges all atheists to openly state their position -- and to fight the incursion of the church into politics and science. About 17:50 into the video, Dawkins comes to a depressing conclusion. In his words:"We have reached a truly remarkable situation, then: a grotesque mismatch between the American
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