The cognitive style known as central coherence is receiving increased attention across a variety of clinical neuroscience disorders. I had not been familiar with this concept of central coherence. Essentially, central coherence describes a style of thinking on a spectrum. On one end of the spectrum, you have individuals who tend to think globally or using a gestalt perspective.
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December 21, 2009
Getting through it
Some of you may know that I’ve just had surgery, and I’m gently recovering from the comfort of my own home over the next few weeks. Posts on here will be intermittent but I find myself considering aspects of pain management from a ‘patient’s’ perspective today as it’s about 5 days since surgery and my [...]... Leegaard, M., Nåden, D., & Fagermoen, M. (
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September 30, 2009
Bullying, Hypocrisy, and Church: An Asperger Perspective on Religion
In his most recent post, John Elder Robison asks why many people on the spectrum reject religion. Personally, my relationship with religion has always been highly complex. As I wrote previously, when I was young, my challenges drove me to try to understand things, especially things relating to people. So, I set out to study the human condition. What makes human beings tick
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September 29, 2009
Debunking a harmful myth: Assessing for suicide risk does not cause people to become suicidal
by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. Having been trained in a lab that specializes in the systematic investigation of suicide, I have been frequently exposed to the perspective that evaluating suicide risk is imperative and should be done routinely, even with...
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August 14, 2009
Intervention helps reduce homophobia
A problem with interventions that use role-playing to beat prejudice is that bigots usually aren't motivated to take the perspective of the groups that they discriminate against. In a new study, Gordon Hodson and colleagues have tested the effectiveness of an unusual alien-themed intervention for reducing homophobia that involves participants taking the perspective of a homosexual person, without
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July 21, 2009
40 Superb Psychology Blogs
Forty of the best psychology blogs, chosen to give you a broad sweep of the most interesting content being produced online right now.The list is split into three sections: first are more general psychological blogs, followed by those with an academic slant, followed by condition specific and patient perspective blogs. Other than that the [...]» Visit happier.com for tools and tests built b
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