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Amy Jones 11/5/12 Amy Jones 11/5/12

the multi-determination of perfectionism in the nyt “Our research shows that successful perfectionists are successful in spite of it, not because of it,” says Tom Greenspon, a psychologist in Minneapolis and author of “Moving Past …
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Amy Jones 11/5/12 Amy Jones 11/5/12

addiction to the unpredictable in matters of the heart in the nyt illustration: jeanne detallante
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Amy Jones 11/3/12 Amy Jones 11/3/12

David Horvitz’s Sad, Depressed, People looks at a set of images circulating within stock photography collections. These photographs, in which actors are photographed holding their heads in their hands, ostensibly depressed, are here shown to contain…
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Amy Jones 11/2/12 Amy Jones 11/2/12

shifting understandings of the brain and consciousness over time in being human “Philosophers have wondered for thousands of years how we can be sure whether what we’re experiencing is reality or some shadowy deception. Plato imagined people l…
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Amy Jones 11/2/12 Amy Jones 11/2/12

andrew solomon on raising a prodigy in the nyt “Marc sat on a phone book on the piano bench so his hands would be high enough to play comfortably and launched into Chopin’s “Fantasie-Impromptu,” which he imbued with a quality of nuanced yearni…
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Amy Jones 10/25/12 Amy Jones 10/25/12

the power of blue in the nyt “According to psychologists who explore the complex interplay of color, mood and behavior, blue’s basic emotional valence is calmness and open-endedness, in contrast to the aggressive specificity associated with re…
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Amy Jones 10/25/12 Amy Jones 10/25/12

gender non-conforming children in the nyt magazine “People rely on gender to help understand the world, to make order out of chaos,” says Jean Malpas, who heads the Gender and Family Project at the Ackerman Institute in Manhattan. “It’s been a way o…
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Amy Jones 9/10/12 Amy Jones 9/10/12

obsessive passion vs. harmonious passion in the atlantic “Those with harmonious passion really love something, but ultimately can leave it, since it’s a "significant but not overwhelming part of their identity.” Harmonious pas…
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Amy Jones 9/10/12 Amy Jones 9/10/12

the evolutionary purpose of tears in curious behavior: yawning, laughing, hiccuping, and beyond (the atlantic)
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Amy Jones 8/17/12 Amy Jones 8/17/12

psychosis, insight, self-image and reality in the new yorker “In 1886, the hospital’s superintendent described psychosis as "a waking dream, which, if not broken in upon, works mischief to the brain,” and wrote that the goal of trea…
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Amy Jones 8/17/12 Amy Jones 8/17/12

“there is nothing either good good or bad but thinking makes it so”: new understandings of regret through the eyes of medal winners in bbc news “The first is that regret, like imagination generally, exists for a reason – this amaz…
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Amy Jones 7/27/12 Amy Jones 7/27/12

art, darwin and evolutionary psychology in the new republic “Art, then, can be defined as the calisthenics of pattern-finding…(Boyd) is proposing a direct link between art and fitness: the more art we experience, the more likely we are…
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Amy Jones 7/17/12 Amy Jones 7/17/12

not only does nature put you in a better mood, it makes you smarter
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Amy Jones 7/17/12 Amy Jones 7/17/12

know thyself (and still not have a clue) : jonah lehrer in the new yorker “The problem with this introspective approach is that the driving forces behind biases—the root causes of our irrationality—are largely unconscious, which means they re…
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Amy Jones 7/17/12 Amy Jones 7/17/12

psychology, literature and nabokov in the american scholar “Literature’s aims differ considerably from those of research psychology. Nevertheless literature draws on human intuitive psychology (itself also a subject in recent psychology) and exerc…
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Amy Jones 7/6/12 Amy Jones 7/6/12

 distortion and feelings in the atlantic “…an evolutionary biologist who specializes in animal communication, says that jarring rock music shares aural characteristics with the arousing vocalizations of troubled animals and may capture …
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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 6/25/12 Amy Jones 6/25/12

the spoiling of american children in the new yorker  “Most parents today were brought up in a culture that put a strong emphasis on being special…being special takes hard work and can’t be trusted to children. Hence the exhausting cycle of co…
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Amy Jones 6/22/12 Amy Jones 6/22/12

the ethics of procreation in the nyt “The burden of proof — or at least the burden of justification — should therefore rest primarily on those who choose to have children, not on those who choose to be childless. The choice to have children c…
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Amy Jones 6/18/12 Amy Jones 6/18/12

cool is complicated (and means different things to different generations) : cachet (friendliness, caring, attractiveness, personal competence, drive for success)  vs contrarian (rebellion, irony, toughness, hedonism, thrill-seeking) in journal of in…
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