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Radical Psych: January 2008
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Monday, January 28, 2008. Depression, Learned Helplessness, and Education. Given the wide-spread and long-lasting effects of depression, I think it is important to embrace a variety of theories, experiences, and treatments, especially those which challenge our assumptions about the kinds of things which can "cause" depression, and the types of treatments which can "cure" it. So, what is it? So that's learned helplessness. How does it relate to education? While many young people's depression may be caused...
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Science of the Greater Good: June 2007
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Science of the Greater Good. Greater Good Magazine highlights ground breaking scientific research into the roots of compassion and altruism. Welcome to our blog! Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Of Emory University, suggesting a link between altruism and positive emotions. Reporting on this finding in today's The New York Times. Tierney quotes Ulrich Mayr, one of the study's authors, as saying, "The most surprising result is that these basic pleasure centers in the brain don’t respond only to what’s g...That take...
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Science of the Greater Good: April 2007
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Science of the Greater Good. Greater Good Magazine highlights ground breaking scientific research into the roots of compassion and altruism. Welcome to our blog! Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Tony Deifell: helping others see beyond themselves. Photographer, documentarian and Chief Strategist for the nonprofit playground builder Kaboom! Delivered the opening keynote address at the recent Social Enterprise Alliance. Refraction- how we mistake fragments of the world for the whole. Posted by Tom White. Giving act...
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Science of the Greater Good: Winning and Losing
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Science of the Greater Good. Greater Good Magazine highlights ground breaking scientific research into the roots of compassion and altruism. Welcome to our blog! Saturday, September 15, 2007. Cnncom's story on Jack Whittaker. I don't have any friends," says the multi-millionaire. "Every friend that I've had, practically, has wanted to borrow money or something and of course, once they borrow money from you, you can't be friends anymore." There was also mention on how cautious he had to be when me...A gro...
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Science of the Greater Good: August 2007
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Science of the Greater Good. Greater Good Magazine highlights ground breaking scientific research into the roots of compassion and altruism. Welcome to our blog! Friday, August 17, 2007. Altruistic birds vs. altruistic humans. Reports the Washington Post. To find out what motivates this behavior, a team at the University of Cambridge in England "looked at what happened before the baby birds hatched. They compared the eggs laid by females that had helpers with those laid by solo females":. They found that...
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Science of the Greater Good: May 2007
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Science of the Greater Good. Greater Good Magazine highlights ground breaking scientific research into the roots of compassion and altruism. Welcome to our blog! Wednesday, May 23, 2007. Ted Jackson, staff photographer on the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Contributed The Eye of the Storm. Photo essay in the Fall/Winter 2006-07 issue of Greater Good. That illustrates how he responded to the scenes before him during the first day that Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. 8221; from HBO Documentary Films. Careg...
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Science of the Greater Good: September 2007
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Science of the Greater Good. Greater Good Magazine highlights ground breaking scientific research into the roots of compassion and altruism. Welcome to our blog! Thursday, September 27, 2007. A column by David Leonhardt in yesterday's. Reports on two new studies that have reached the same finding: Men today say they're happier than women do. This is the opposite of what research found in the 1970s. Drawing on studies by Alan Krueger. At Princeton University and Betsey Stevenson. These findings] show just...
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Science of the Greater Good: July 2007
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Science of the Greater Good. Greater Good Magazine highlights ground breaking scientific research into the roots of compassion and altruism. Welcome to our blog! Thursday, July 26, 2007. Divorce and Reverse Traditional Families. Stop the presses: Breadwinning moms are divorcing their stay-at- home husbands! Not really- there's absolutely no evidence that this is happening- but you wouldn't know it from a recent wave. On a "househusband backlash" trend that the reporter seems to have invented. Puts the nu...
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Science of the Greater Good: October 2007
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Science of the Greater Good. Greater Good Magazine highlights ground breaking scientific research into the roots of compassion and altruism. Welcome to our blog! Friday, October 12, 2007. New and improved Greater Good blog! The UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center. Has re-launched its website and added a new and improved blog. This one is now obsolete. Thanks so much for visiting, and we'll see you at our new cyber-home: http:/ greatergood.berkeley.edu/index.html. Links to this post. Nevertheless, Pin...