Good Postures for Better Effectiveness

March 16, 2011

Psychological research suggests simple actions can project power, persuade others, increase empathy, boost cognitive performance and more… We tend to think of body language as something that expresses our internal states to the outside world. But it also works the other way around: the position of our body also influences our mind. As the following [...]

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Young Children Impacted by Online Ridicule unlike teenagers and adults

March 4, 2011

Social ostracism on a computer hurts, just like face-to-face rejection. That much we know from past studies using a game called ‘Cyberball’, in which players pass a virtual ball to eachother on-screen. For the first time, a new study has extended this line of research to children as young as eight. It finds that online [...]

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Just Leave me Alone: Teenager Changes and Overparenting

February 3, 2011

Does keeping secrets from parents get kids MORE privacy? Or less? Does being nosy get parents MORE knowledge? Or less? read more

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Rounded Edge Furniture helps your self esteem

January 3, 2011

The principle of Feng shui – to arrange rooms and buildings in ways that are pleasing and health-giving – has popular appeal. Unfortunately, Feng shui’s scientific credentials are lacking, being based as it is on the ancient Chinese concept of Ch’i or life-force. The good news is that psychologically informed, evidence-based design is on the [...]

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Other Related Books to Becker Research

June 10, 2010

Lucifer Effect by Zimbardo The premise of this book is captivating, and I read it almost immediately after seeing Dr. Zimbardo on the Daily Show, where I learned of it. The first 2/3rds of this book are fascinating, particularly the account of the Stanford Prison Experiment and subsequent experiments regarding the human capacity for evil. [...]

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Martin Gardner, 1914-2010 on Free Will

May 26, 2010

From a 1997 interview at [link] And when it comes to human behavior, while there are some uses of science in fields like economics and psychology, there is the problem of human free will that makes prediction extremely difficult. On this question of free will, as a member of a group called the mysterians I [...]

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Re: Eulogy by a poet for a poet

May 15, 2010

Emily Dickinson died this day in 1886: Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. – ~~~~~~~ H. TALAT HALMAN, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Religion Central Michigan University 301 Anspach Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 Taken from the Ernest Becker Listserv Discussion Archives

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Re: Eulogy by a poet for a poet

May 14, 2010

Jim, It does echo Rank. Though Otto Rank might have an issue with "even beyond personal happiness", which seems to be the neurotics view (with his "absolutized" happiness) of the creative. Tommy – You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Feed Beck Group" group. Taken from the Ernest Becker Listserv [...]

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Re: Eulogy by a poet for a poet

May 13, 2010

The last stanza of my poem "The First Artist and Shaman" in "Dreams and Beyond:Selected Poems" ; Finally, inexorably mortality is faced and conquered as the first artist draws of triumphs. Deer and bison fall, despair is vanquished, bowing to sublimation. and the Poem "Death" DEATH Death is that which hovers Taken from the Ernest [...]

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Re: Eulogy by a poet for a poet

May 13, 2010

"The trick is not to stop the sliding, but to find a graceful way of staying slid." Stewart Dutfield First and last paragraphs of long essay about his friend. The next-to-last sentence seems to echo Otto Rank. –Jim From The Times Literary Supplement May 12, 2010 Peter Porter 1929-2010 Taken from the Ernest Becker Listserv [...]

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