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  • The Net Remembers

    NYT Magazine piece about the the trouble with erasing past mistakes online:  The Web Means the End of Forgetting. 75 percent of U.S. recruiters and human-resource professionals report that their companies require them to do online research about candidates, and many use a range of sites when scrutinizing applicants — including search engines, social-networking sites,…

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  • Music Mind

    PsychCentral relays a study about the Long-term Benefits from Musical Training. New research may help parents when they write the monthly check for music lessons…The research strongly suggests that the neural connections made during musical training also prime the brain for other aspects of human communication.

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  • Positive Psychology TED

    From TED2004–an oldie–Positive Psychology founder, Martin Seligman, talking his talk.

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  • Meditation Brain

    A study looks at the different brain waves associated with three different types of meditation. Focused attention, characterized by beta/gamma activity, included meditations from Tibetan Buddhist (loving kindness and compassion), Buddhist (Zen and Diamond Way), and Chinese (Qigong) traditions. Open monitoring, characterized by theta activity, included meditations from Buddhist (Mindfulness, and ZaZen), Chinese (Qigong), and…

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  • Relationship Stress and Health

    A study to put no one at ease:  Relationship Insecurity Ups Health Risk. Anxious attachment was positively associated with a wider range of health conditions, including some defined primarily by pain and several involving the cardiovascular system (e.g., stroke, heart attack or high blood pressure).

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