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In Favor of Daydreaming
Read more: In Favor of DaydreamingA look at recent thinking about daydreaming. “For creativity you need your mind to wander,” Dr. Schooler says, “but you also need to be able to notice that you’re mind wandering and catch the idea when you have it.”
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The Look of Love
Read more: The Look of LoveA pair of studies looks at the look of love: First: Attitudes Towards Sexual Relationships Can Be Judged From Photos Of Your Face And in another: Volunteers looked at faces with exaggerated or reduced male or female features; the faces had been morphed to look either more or less masculine or feminine. As the faces…
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Near-Immortality
Read more: Near-ImmortalityLong for this World, by Jonathan Weiner, looks at the possibility of science conquering disease and people living much longer lives. [One scientist] predicts that when life expectancy reaches multiple centuries, humans may become extraordinarily risk-averse, unwilling to ride in a car or ski because they’ll have too much time ahead, too much to lose. “When.”
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Dysregulation Nation
Read more: Dysregulation NationJudith Warner coins a phrase and paints a grim portrait of our culture and its consequences: [I]n the anything-goes atmosphere of our recent past, it wasn’t just external controls that went awry; inwardly, people lost constraint and common sense, too. Now there is a case to be made that problems of self-regulation — of appetite,…
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Relationships Better with Age
Read more: Relationships Better with AgeAt PsychCentral: Relationships Grow, Improve with Age. “Older adults report better marriages, more supportive friendships and less conflict with children and siblings.” So…time to start aging.