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Why Morning Routines Are Creativity Killers
TIME: Brrriiinnng. The alarm clock buzzes in another hectic weekday morning. You leap out of bed, rush into the shower, into your clothes and out the door with barely a moment to think. A stressful commute gets your blood pressure climbing. Once at the office, you glance through the newspaper, its array of stories ranging from discouraging to depressing to tragic. With a sigh, you pour yourself a cup of coffee and get down to work, ready to do some creative, original problem-solving. Good luck with that.
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Jonathan Haidt Decodes the Tribal Psychology of Politics
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Jonathan Haidt is occupying Wall Street. Sort of. It's a damp and bone-chilling January night in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park. The 48-year-old psychologist, tall and youthful-looking despite his silvered hair, is lecturing the occupiers about how conservatives would view their ideas. "Conservatives believe in equality before the law," he tells the young activists, who are here in the "canyons of wealth" to talk people power over vegan stew. "They just don't care about equality of outcome." Explaining conservatism at a left-wing occupation?
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Cursing in America
TODAY: Timothy Jay's interview on the TODAY Show - kids and cursing Watch here
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How To Break Up With A Friend
The Huffington Post: Is there a right way to end a friendship? That's the question Alex Williams raised in the New York Times this weekend. One 40-year-old woman she spoke to who had realized a friendship was over "took the 'bad-boyfriend approach' and just stopped calling," Williams reported. "After the friend made a few spurned overtures -- and after some awkward conversations about why Ms. Brunner was always too busy to get together -- the friend got the hint. Years later, however, the breakup still feels unresolved." Read the whole story: The Huffington Post
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Why a traumatic experience could be good for you
AOL: Finding out you have a serious illness or being in an accident is not something you might associate with changing your life for the better. However a psychologist has discovered that having a traumatic event occur in your life could turn out to be a positive thing. Professor Stephen Joseph, co-director of the Centre For Trauma, Resilience And Growth at the University of Nottingham, wrote about the subject in the Daily Mail, and said his experience working with the survivors of the Zeebrugge ferry disaster showed that having the experience left them "with a new outlook". Read the whole story: AOL
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Even Strangers Can Make You Feel Left Out
msn: The need for a connection to other people is so powerful that being ignored by a stranger can make someone feel left out, according to a new study. People need to feel they are part of a group or connected to others in order to be happy, the researchers explained. This sense of belonging can come from joining a club, a friendly neighbor or -- as this study reveals -- even eye contact from a stranger. In conducting the study, researchers randomly chose people walking on the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette, Ind. A research assistant either looked them in the eye, looked them in the eye and smiled or looked in their general direction but not directly at them.
