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American Family
Read more: American FamilyNYT: Family Relations: An International Comparison It’s not just you. Compared with elderly parents and adult children in five other industrialized nations, Americans are twice as likely to have “disharmonious” relationships, a new multinational study has found. And we’re correspondingly less likely to have “amicable” relationships marked by strong affection and relatively free of conflict.
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Mindfulness and Non-Doing
Read more: Mindfulness and Non-DoingJon Kabat-Zinn talks mindfulness at Google (2007):
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Mental Health, CA
Read more: Mental Health, CAIn never rains in California, but… In a comprehensive new study of mental health status and the use of mental health services by Californians, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that nearly one in five adults in the state — about 4.9 million people — said they needed help for a mental…
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The Art and Science of Influence
Read more: The Art and Science of InfluencePsyBlog posts the latest on how to win friends and influence people. The art and science of persuasion is often discussed as though changing people’s minds is about using the right arguments, the right tone of voice or the right negotiation tactic. But effective influence and persuasion isn’t just about patter, body language or other…
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Friends for Life
Read more: Friends for LifeNYT: A New Risk Factor: Your Social Life Social relationships are just as important to health as other common risk factors like smoking, lack of exercise or obesity, new research shows…The researchers concluded that having few friends or weak social ties to the community is just as harmful to health as being an alcoholic or smoking…