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Figuring Out Therapy
Read more: Figuring Out TherapyIn case you missed in, here’s Daphne Merkin on the pitfalls of entertaining in therapy–Making My Therapist Laugh (NYT): One of the odder things about therapy, I’ve discovered, is that it comes with little in the way of a code of conduct as opposed to other situations you find yourself in…There is no one, in short,…
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Grow Your Brain
Read more: Grow Your BrainNew studies continue to show that exercise is good for your brain. From the NYT: Until about 20 years ago, most scientists believed that the brain’s structure was fixed by adulthood, that you couldn’t create new brain cells, alter the shape of those that existed or in any other way change your mind physically after…
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Reading and Empathy
Read more: Reading and EmpathyCheering news for lit snobs via the NYT. Empathy, social perception and emotional intelligence get a boost from reading–certain reading: [A] series of five experiments conducted by social psychologists at The New School for Social Research in New York City, people who read excerpts from literary fiction (Don DeLillo, Alice Munro, Wendell Berry) scored better…
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Opting Out
Read more: Opting OutInteresting study, by Dr. Carl Hart, written up in the New York Times: At the start of each day, as researchers watched behind a one-way mirror, a nurse would place a certain amount of crack in a pipe — the dose varied daily — and light it. While smoking, the participant was blindfolded so he couldn’t…
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Nostalgia v. Angst
Read more: Nostalgia v. AngstResearch says nostalgia is good for you (NYT). One study: First, the experimenters induced nostalgia by playing hit songs from the past for some people and letting them read lyrics to their favorite songs. Afterward, these people were more likely than a control group to say that they felt “loved” and that “life is worth living.” Then…