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Consumer Psych
Read more: Consumer PsychA trio of consumer psychology posts at PsychCentral: In-store displays: How do consumers perceive pricing? A study of house prices: Do the benefits of disclosure outweigh the risks? Consumers love underdogs
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What Happens in Therapy?
Read more: What Happens in Therapy?What happens in therapy? Good question. Couch Fiction, a book-length comic by British psychotherapist, Philippa Perry, offers some answers. Based on a case study of Pat (our sandal-wearing, cat-loving psychotherapist) and her new client, James (an ambitious barrister with a potentially harmful habit he can’t stop), this graphic novel follows the anxieties, frustrations, mind-wanderings and…
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The Blue and the Gray
Read more: The Blue and the GrayScienceDaily: Why does everything look gray when you feel blue? Regardless of culture, language, era, or individual artist, the arts consistently depict depression using darkness. Scientific findings now lend empirical support to this representation of depression that everything looks gray when you feel blue.
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Brain Pushups
Read more: Brain PushupsScienceDaily: Brain training reverses age-related cognitive decline. In rats. But still… “The neurons looked young again. They were full and robust. It’s like a hose without water going through it appears collapsed. Run the water and it expands to its original size. Recovery happens.”
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The Wisdom of Insecurity
Read more: The Wisdom of InsecurityWorry a lot? To consider: The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts. You may know Alan Watts from oft-broadcast lectures–eager audience hanging on every wryly wise, British-accented utterance. (Lectures can be sampled via this podcast or downloads around the net.) In this short book, Watts takes on worry and anxiety–a.k.a. insecurity. He argues that to live is…