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Emotion Without Frown Lines
Read more: Emotion Without Frown LinesFrom the Los Angeles Times: A Botox gap in understanding emotion: Not only do our facial expressions reflect our emotional ups and downs, they appear to send crucial feedback to our brain, suggests a growing body of research. Without that full feedback loop, our ability to understand — and be understood — might be constrained.
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Having Hope for Sociopaths
Read more: Having Hope for SociopathsFrom GoodTherapy.org: Empathy for Sociopaths? [N]obody chooses sociopathy. One’s genetic and environmental inheritance as well as the family and culture one is born into predisposes and shapes each of us beyond our control. What a horrible misfortune to inherit sociopathy.
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Taking on Gaming Addiction
Read more: Taking on Gaming AddictionNYT: South Korea Expands Aid for Internet Addiction. Thanks partly to government counseling programs, the estimated number of teenagers with symptoms of Internet addiction has steadily declined, to 938,000 in 2009, from more than a million in 2007, the Ministry of Public Administration and Safety said in April. But the number of addicts in their…
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Empathy Endangered?
Read more: Empathy Endangered?Headline: Shocker: Empathy Dropped 40% in College Students Since 2000. Without unstructured free time with playmates, children simply don’t get to know each other very well. And you can’t learn to connect and care if you don’t practice these things. Free play declined by at least a third between 1981 and 2003–right when the kids…
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Re: Herpes
Read more: Re: HerpesA series about herpes is underway at the NYT Consults blog. First posts: 5 Things to Know About Herpes Do Stress or Diet Cause Herpes Outbreaks? Can Oral Sex Cause Herpes?