Month: August 2020

Clarifying Creative Cognition

August 31, 2020

Creativity is an aspect of personality that is characterized by novel and appropriate ideas and processes. Linda Neiman, founder of Creativity at Work, a consulting, coaching and training alliance, relates that creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality

Sporting Genius: Inside the Minds of Elite Athletes

August 29, 2020

Sporting excellence excites and inspires. Whether it is Serena Williams dominating women’s tennis, year after year, Cristiano Ronaldo splitting the defense with a perfectly timed goal-assist, or LeBron James faking a drive, pulling up and shooting the “dagger,” moments of sporting

How Advertisers Get Your Brain To React

August 28, 2020

Ever wondered why people are willing to sit through ad after ad, even though they’re not ready to do the most essential things for their friends sometimes? It all comes down to how advertisers get your brain to react to their marketing messages.

Eliminating Loneliness In The Loneliest Time Ever

August 27, 2020

There have been lonely times in the past, but none as lonely as the COVID-19 pandemic. Regardless of your situation, it’s very likely that there has hardly ever been a period where you’ve had to stay home as much as you have in recent months.

How Our Minds, Neurosexism, and Society Create the “Male” and “Female” Brain

August 26, 2020

Cordelia Fine’s book, “Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference,” just may upend everything you’ve come to believe about males, females, and hardwiring. What if men aren’t naturally good at math and fixing things, and women aren’t

What Causes People to Cheat?

August 25, 2020

When confronted with cheaters – whether in relationships, school or at work — people often shake their heads and say, “How did they hope to get away with it?” However, a slew of new research from Germany and the United States indicates that cheaters show different brain

Enhancing Experience Through the Phenomenological Method

August 23, 2020

Phenomenology is a philosophical study of the structures that underlie our conscious experience from a first-person point of view. In other words, it’s a multidisciplinary school of thought that attempts to understand how we experience things and what meaning things have in our

Road Map of the Mind: Understanding Functional MRI

August 22, 2020

What if I told you it was possible to read, or even hear, your thoughts? Mind reading has been the stuff of science fiction for some time — something that 50 years ago would have been thought impossible. Even today, there’s quite a bit of doubt, but what can be seen is the activity across brain regions each time we produce thoughts. While sending messages through brain waves

Stepping Up Your Creativity: Walking, Meditation, and the Creative Brain

August 21, 2020

“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.” Friedrich Nietzsche included this seemingly exaggerated statement among the aphorisms he created for his book “Beyond Good and Evil,” where he predicts the future of philosophy. And he is certainly not the only genius to associate

Stuck On Yourself: Are Millennials Really More Individualistic?

August 19, 2020

Is narcissism really on the rise? Judging by the number of books written on the topic in recent years, it’s hard to resist the idea. Some psychologists say that millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996), influenced by cultural changes like the rise of the internet, are more

Moving On To Greater Things: When It Comes to Big Changes, Don’t Just Survive — Thrive!

August 16, 2020

Of course, life is more than just career changes in your 20s — change is inevitable and ingrained in the fabric of modern life. Life goes on, but catching up with it is easier said than done. Physical and mental health fluctuate. Relationships begin and end. Children are born and parents pass away. You’re the only thing that remains

Speed-Dating: How the Brain Thin-Slices a Face

August 15, 2020

When considering whether or not to go out on a date with a guy, Samantha Tan, a sophomore at Indiana Wesleyan University, says she pays attention most to the eyes. “I feel like you can get a sense of their motives,” she says. And so goes the age-old saying, “The eyes are the window

Falling Out of Focus: What Science Says About ADHD

August 14, 2020

I typically wake up when my iPhone reads 8:42 a.m. A full minute later, I’m scanning my inbox on my phone, checking for new messages. I might get lucky and find a few worth responding to, and maybe I will write back right then and there, but, more likely, I’ll start a new draft of my reply

Facing the Music: The Power of Rhythmic Movements

August 13, 2020

If you’ve seen “The Wolf of Wall Street,” you probably remember the scene early on in the film when Leonardo DiCaprio’s character goes out to lunch with his boss (who is played by Matthew McConaughey) and learns the secret to working on Wall Street. In the middle of a fancy restaurant, McConaughey’s character starts

The Wellness Approach To Home Improvement

August 13, 2020

When you look to renovate, upgrade, and otherwise improve the home, what are you doing it for? You might have practical needs to be taken care of. You might even be focused on improving the value of the home. But you should think of how the home affects your mental and emotional

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