anxiety — IDEAS — Amy Jones, EdM, MSW

Amy Jones 7/6/12 Amy Jones 7/6/12

americans and and anxiety: why choices AND misconceptions about choices make us feel so nuts in the atlantic

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Amy Jones 10/13/11 Amy Jones 10/13/11

play is the exultation of the possible -martin buber
An article in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Play details not only how much children’s play time has declined, but how this lack of play affects emotional development, lead…

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Amy Jones 10/8/11 Amy Jones 10/8/11

how perfectionism might make you stupid in wired

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Amy Jones 9/5/11 Amy Jones 9/5/11

anxiety, gothic literature, and tabloid tragedy in the nyt

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Amy Jones 8/14/11 Amy Jones 8/14/11

Jonah Lehrer interviews Davi Johnson Thornton on her new book Brain Culture: Neuroscience and Popular Media

“All of the time you have to constantly think “How is this affecting my brain? What is this going to do to my brain, and hence my futu…

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Amy Jones 7/20/11 Amy Jones 7/20/11

the psychological benefits of dangerous playgrounds in the new york times

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Amy Jones 6/27/11 Amy Jones 6/27/11

“The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor ‘Paradise Lost’ was dashed off by a party animal.”
Why we need…

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Amy Jones 4/21/11 Amy Jones 4/21/11

Are women really more anxious than men? Eventually, yes.
Parents coddle girls who cry after a painful scrape but tell boys to suck it up, and this formative link between emotional outbursts and kisses from mom predisposes girls to react to unpleasan…

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Amy Jones 3/23/11 Amy Jones 3/23/11

“But the 19th baby was different. She was distressed by novelty — new sounds, new voices, new toys, new smells — and showed it by flailing her legs, arching her back and crying. Here was what Kagan was looking for but was not sure he would fin…

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