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July 26, 2010

Mindfulness and exercise?

Filed under: Psychology Articles — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 12:00 am
Now I know this might seem a strange heading when we think of mindfulness practice normally, but this isn’t ‘treatment as usual’. The definition of mindfulness in this study is ‘The body scan practice involves systematically moving awareness through each part of the body and noticing the presence of sensation in a detailed and precise … Read more...

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May 25, 2010

The Phenomenon of Ringxiety

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Do you have the sensation that your cell phone is ringing when it's not? Do you hear a ringtone that sends you and others into a frenzy to see whose phone it is? Welcome to the phenomenon called RINGXIETY.... AVVANNAVAR, M., KUMAR, N.S., SHRIHARI, S., & BABU ARE, R. (2008) Mobile Phones: An Anthropological Review of Its Evolutionary Impact. The Journal of International Social Researc

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May 29, 2009

Simulating déjà vu in the lab

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Déjà vu is that creepy feeling that you're living through a moment for the second time, as if retreading the path of an earlier existence. Now Alan Brown and Elizabeth Marsh believe they've found a way to simulate the déjà vu sensation in the laboratory - a finding that could help us understand why the phenomenon occurs.Twenty-four participants were presented with dozens of symbols that had been

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