10 Facts About The Placebo Effect
"Placebo" is Latin for "I shall please." Placebo trials are used to tell researchers whether a tested drug has any healing effect beyond that which occurs a certain percentage of time when people take an inert pill. A patient's belief in a pill - a supposed medicine, but chemically innocuous - ...
The Art Of A Bad Mood
Psychologists call it “emotional contagion.” But you can think of it as Scroogeology or Grinchonomics. Better yet, think of it as the woeful friend, the crabby boss, the depressed party guest whose moods are so melancholy that, despite your good cheer, they suck the joy from the season. The effect is far ...
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The Art Of A Bad Mood
Psychologists call it “emotional contagion.” But you can think of it as Scroogeology...
10 Ways to Say No, Guilt-Free
Thinking you are a bad person for saying no is a symptom of “the disease to...
The Biggest Reason For Failure… And The Solution
All we do is create experiences. That is all we do, as human beings. There is nothing...
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10 Secrets Of Happy Couples
By Mark Goulston, M.D. Happy couples know that the real relationship begins when...
Honorable Manhood
Closing moments from the 1st segment of Ken Burns “Civil War”. Letter...
Seven Things No One Tells You About Marriage
Sometimes it’s the least romantic parts of marriage that have the most to...
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Ten Thousand Failures
Thomas Edison once mentioned to reporters that he had tried over 10,000 materials as filaments for his new invention, the electric light bulb. One reporter asked how the young inventor maintained his persistence in the face of so much failure. “Failure?” he responded. “I didn’t fail. What I did was successfully eliminate 10,000 elements... [Read more of this review]
10 Habits of Highly Functional Brains
If you are reading this, the good news is that you have a brain inside your head. And you have probably read about the emerging brain fitness movement: frequent articles in the media, an ongoing PBS special, more and more products and games. Newsweek’s Sharon Begley recently wrote that “With the nation’s 78 million baby boomers approaching... [Read more of this review]
The Two-Minute Self-Hypnosis Technique
By Colin G. Smith Psychologists and Doctors used to send their ‘impossible’ clients to him and in many instances he helped them to turn their lives around. Milton H. Erickson was one of the most successful hypnotherapists in the world and is often referred to as ‘the father of modern hypnosis.’ One of the factors that set him... [Read more of this review]
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