http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/04/29/hearts__minds The Boston Globe Hearts & Minds Since Plato, scholars have drawn a clear distinction...
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=w4r1q7lrr4rkng6hmkzv96zbmg3rg2db From the issue dated April 20, 2007 The DNA of Religious Faith By DAVID P. BARASH In...
http://nytimes.com The New York Times May 6, 2007 The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis By STEPHEN S. HALL In 1950, the psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson, in a famous...
http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25350-2640268,00.html April 25, 2007 Are mammals moral? Matthew Cobb Frans de Waal Primates and Philosophers How...
http://www.slate.com/id/2165123/ Cells That Read Minds? What the myth of mirror neurons gets wrong about the human brain. By Alison Gopnik Posted Thursday,...
Human Brain Breaks Down Events Into Smaller Units Science Daily - In order to comprehend the continuous stream of cacophonies and visual stimulation that...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/afps-cpb050807.php Can personality be changed? Carol Dweck to deliver keynote address at APS 19th annual...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/uow-mmf050407.php Meditation may fine-tune control over attention MADISON -- Everyday experience and psychology...
http://gaggio.blogspirit.com/archive/2007/05/14/mental-training-affects- distribution-of-limited-brain-resour.html Mental Training Affects Distribution of...
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/InterviewTypeDetail/assetid/54803 The Bookshelf talks with Douglas Hofstadter Greg Ross Douglas R. Hofstadter was...
A good argument for meditation to be an adjunct but not a replacement for SSRIs as a treatment for anxiety and depression. - J. Does mindfulness meditation...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070516081014.htm Treating Oneself Kindly When Things Go Badly Could Be A Key To Weathering Life's Challenges,...
Already schisming over its relation to Islam, but an interesting experiment. BTW I belong to Buddhist and Unitarian-Universalist groups in SL, although I've...
"We are the next Buddha" http://www.mushin.eu/en/blog/2007/05/15/we-are-the-next-buddha/ This essay is a little more metaphysical than we're supposed to be on ...
The idea that conservatives are more "sensitive" to moral issues is counter-intuitive to me, but then those moral issues are aspects of our innate inherited...
Regarding conservatives - why would a sensitivity to in-group boundaries, authority and spiritual purity be considered good? Translated into actions these...
God . . . in other words Richard Dawkins may be Britain's foremost atheist, but he is willing to be inspired and uplifted. Is he a believer after all? ...
This Is Your Life (and How You Tell It) Otto Steininger By BENEDICT CAREY The New York Times Published: May 22, 2007 For more than a century, researchers have...
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/hallmark_scientists_identify_3_new Hallmark Scientists Identify 3 New Human Emotions The Onion KANSAS CITY, MO-Scientists...
I can't wait for the module to be added to undergraduate Psychology classes the world around! Does anybody care to pick up on a couple of threads that could...
Mark, Please say more about your "indescribable" feelings, including the "lag-time" between congition. (I don't want to say more right now, but I think I know...
... In a recent issue of Harpers my friend Gary Greenberg mused in "Manufacturing Depression" on his experience getting diagnosed with major depression and...
Please say more about your "indescribable" feelings, including the "lag-time" between congition. (I don't want to say more right now, but I think I know what...
http://www.reason.com/news/show/119721.html Spiritual Highs and Legal Blows The power and peril of religious exemptions from drug prohibition Jacob Sullum |...
NOTE: What might we learn about ourselves when we can examine records of our brain states during typical daily activities--and atypical ones--correlating...
Meditation is certainly not a panacea. It's a tool, but a limited one. Daniel Ingram, MD, writes in his book about one of his fellow advanced meditators who is...
this is certainly along the lines I was talking about, but there is a bit ofa problem, would you wear one just on the offchance something worth analysing...
... a ... MIKE: The current version of the device is far too obtrusive to be worth wearing in most cases. But we can hope that future versions would fit inside...
