If I want you to give time or money to my cause, I'll say your sacrifice is for "people just like you, just like me," for "communities like yours, all across America," or, as Mary Tyler Moore once wrote, for "fascinating beings with complex social interactions, long childhoods and awkward adolescences" (her subject was lobsters—so human-like, she said, they even walk "claw-in-claw" on the s
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June 25, 2010
More Insight Into Why 'The Tears of Strangers Are Only Water'
Filed under: Psychology Articles — Tags: insight, mary tyler moore, sacrifice, social interactions, vote — admin @ 9:00 pm
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January 28, 2010
God's will and beliefs are your own, not god's
Filed under: Psychology Articles — Tags: brain mechanisms, religious belief, religious beliefs, social interactions, there is no god — admin @ 3:00 am
I've written before about how religious beliefs probably are grounded in brain mechanisms that we use for other purposes, primarily social interactions. There is no "god spot" in the brain, rather we think of supernatural all-powerful agents much in the same way as we think of the people we interact with. It suggests that religious belief is a secondary effect of basic or general mechanisms that
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November 20, 2009
The Chameleon Effect
Filed under: Psychology Articles — Tags: body language, chameleon, glossy magazine, self help books, social interactions — admin @ 12:00 am
Does mimicking other people's body language really make them like us?Self-help books, persuasion manuals and glossy magazine articles often advise that mimicking body language can increase how much others like us. But is it really true that mimicry causes others to like us, or is mimicry just a by-product of successful social interactions?Although it had [...]» Try the latest happiness-boos
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October 20, 2009
AAP Advocates For Safer Media And Music Lyrics
Filed under: Psychology News — Tags: explicit music, media violence, mental health problems, music lyrics, social interactions — admin @ 10:00 pm
Exposure to media violence through television, movies, music and video games can contribute to a variety of physical and mental health problems for children and adolescents, including aggressive behavior, nightmares, desensitization to violence, fear and depression. Listening to explicit music lyrics can effect schoolwork, social interactions and produce significant changes in mood and behavior.
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June 9, 2009
Connection Between Evolution And Classroom Learning Found
Filed under: Psychology News — Tags: bridge the gap, facial expressions, researcher, social interactions, widening gap — admin @ 6:00 pm
Over thousands of years, humans have evolved to naturally understand things like facial expressions and social interactions. But a researcher has found there is an ever-widening gap between what humans can naturally learn and what they need to learn to be successful adults in today's modern society. Schools have traditionally helped bridge the gap between evolution and new knowledge, but in the U
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