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Category Archives: Psychology
Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience
Here are some highlights from this 2013 book by sociologist Liah Greenfeld: * finding oneself bombarded by contradictory cultural messages and overwhelmed with choices is an exceedingly and increasingly common modern experience. It is, therefore, not surprising that the period … Continue reading
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Can You Change Your Personality?
All in the Mind podcast. From Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior by John M. Doris: Scholars with a background in evolution see evolutionary psychology as the key to understanding how the world works just as theologians regard their … Continue reading
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Why Do Entrepreneurs Embrace Woo-Woo Ideas? (4-19-22)
00:00 Most people have a positive outlook on life 04:00 Suicide catalyst Teal Swan, https://gizmodo.com/weve-launched-an-investigative-podcast-about-a-controve-1826416613 16:40 Elliott Blatt joins 18:00 I pulled off my first pullups in 34 years 21:30 How do you live without purpose? Elliott’s journey of discovery … Continue reading
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Teal Swan – The Suicide Catalyst (4-13-22)
00:00 I want to go where love is 04:20 The DOWNFALL of KATI MORTON || Youtube’s Corrupt Therapist, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghPBRx2yxy8 08:45 The Dark Origin Story of Internet Spiritual Guru Teal Swan, https://gizmodo.com/the-dark-origin-story-of-internet-spiritual-guru-teal-s-1826598620 14:00 MILENNIAL WOES IS INNOCENT!, https://www.bitchute.com/video/tfLm6dLcMQmu/ 17:00 Millenial Woes … Continue reading
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The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings, and the Biology of Boom and Bust
From the 2012 book: * another remarkable fact struck me during the dot.com years – that women were relatively immune to the frenzy surrounding internet and high-tech stocks. In fact, most of the women I knew, both on Wall Street … Continue reading
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Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
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Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
Here are some excerpts from this 2021 book: * The reason rituals are so effective at helping us manage our inner voices is that they’re a chatter-reducing cocktail that influences us through several avenues. For one, they direct our attention … Continue reading
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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder
Here are some highlights from this 2007 book: * The book you are about to read is a brilliant tour de force of scholarship and analysis from two of our leading thinkers about psychiatric diagnosis and the nature of mental … Continue reading
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Historicism and Hill Street Blues, Major Depressive Disorder, Afghan Refugees
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Michael Lewis writes in his 2016 book The Undoing: * All the leading behaviorists were WASPs—a fact that didn’t go unnoticed by young people entering psychology in the 1950s. Looking back, a casual observer of the field at that time … Continue reading
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