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Amy Jones 4/6/11 Amy Jones 4/6/11

the psychology and science behind instinct and decision making : jonah lehrer talks to terry gross
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Amy Jones 4/4/11 Amy Jones 4/4/11

mothers, daughters, and envy in psychology today
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Amy Jones 4/4/11 Amy Jones 4/4/11

check out this wonderful three-part pbs series (i found it well worth the time commitment) created by harvard’s happiness expert daniel gilbert.  series overview (chevy chase, john leguizamo, and robert kennedy jr. are among the contributers)
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Amy Jones 4/3/11 Amy Jones 4/3/11

 great short animation about euphemism, language, and human relationships
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Amy Jones 4/3/11 Amy Jones 4/3/11

Paul Bloom talks to Seed about why we get pleasure from food, sex, art and religion “…my argument is that pleasure is deep. For instance, sexual desire isn’t just triggered by looking at certain symmetries in the face, or waist-to…
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Amy Jones 4/3/11 Amy Jones 4/3/11

Consumerism, sex, and evolution: Seed Magazine reviews Spent by evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Millerp.s. interesting aside about the hall of mirrors of evolutionary narcissism  
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Amy Jones 3/31/11 Amy Jones 3/31/11

sleep on it  “…sleep plays a critical role in flagging and storing important memories, both intellectual and physical, and perhaps in seeing subtle connections that were invisible during waking” New York Times
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Amy Jones 3/30/11 Amy Jones 3/30/11

jonah lehrer on why  play is so important vectroave.com/andre meca
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Amy Jones 3/28/11 Amy Jones 3/28/11

what are social science’s biggest challenges? Jan Moro (Russia) - http://cur.im/fuAw6e
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Amy Jones 3/28/11 Amy Jones 3/28/11

five myths about grief (and there is good news) ursula andress in matthew barney’s cremaster cycle
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Amy Jones 3/28/11 Amy Jones 3/28/11

procrastination: start somewhere, anywhere…
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Amy Jones 3/28/11 Amy Jones 3/28/11

is anticipating your vacation the best part?
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Amy Jones 3/27/11 Amy Jones 3/27/11

creativity and relationships: two heads are better than one
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Amy Jones 3/26/11 Amy Jones 3/26/11

daydreamers and websurfers encouraged to apply -jonah lehrer in the wall street journal
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Amy Jones 3/26/11 Amy Jones 3/26/11

75,000 is the magic number (if you live in nyc, check out paragraph six)
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Amy Jones 3/26/11 Amy Jones 3/26/11

…for all the longstanding centrality of courage to any standard narrative of human greatness, only lately have researchers begun to study it systematically, to try to define what it is and is not, where it comes from, how it manifests itself…
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Amy Jones 3/26/11 Amy Jones 3/26/11

how much is just enough? “People make this error, thinking that being alone means being lonely, and not being alone means being with other people…You need to be able to recharge on your own sometimes. Part of being able to connect is being a…
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Amy Jones 3/25/11 Amy Jones 3/25/11

“People routinely mispredict how much pleasure or displeasure future events will bring.”
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Amy Jones 3/24/11 Amy Jones 3/24/11

“cosmetic neurology”  and the off-label use of ADD drugs in The New Yorker: “We call it the lifestyle-improvement market.”
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Amy Jones 3/24/11 Amy Jones 3/24/11

what were they thinking? : theory of mind, the red balloon, and god in Slate Banksy.
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