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02 Jan 10

Judge not lest ye be judged? Researchers explore 'moral hypocrisy' in powerful people

  • power inspires hypocrisy, the tendency to hold high standards for others while performing morally suspect behaviors oneself
  • The research finds that power makes people stricter in of others - while being less strict of their own behavior.
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Medical Hypotheses: Why are modern scientists so dull?

Why are modern scientists so dull? How science selects for perseverance and sociability at the expense of intelligence and creativity

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academic science metrics psychology

  • Question: why are so many leading modern scientists so dull and lacking in scientific ambition? Answer: because the science selection process ruthlessly weeds-out interesting and imaginative people. At each level in education, training and career progression there is a tendency to exclude smart and creative people by preferring Conscientious and Agreeable people.
25 Dec 09

Empathy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Empathy is a concept with many different definitions. They cover a broad spectrum, ranging from feeling a concern for other people that creates a desire to help them, experiencing emotions that match another person’s emotions, knowing what the other person is thinking or feeling, to blurring the line between self and other.
  • We recognize others as empathic when we feel that they have accurately acted on or somehow acknowledged in stated or unstated fashion our values or motivations, our knowledge, and our skills or competence, but especially as they appear to recognize the significance of our actions in a manner that we can tolerate their being recognized
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Empathic concern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • To empathize is to respond to another's perceived emotional state by experiencing feeling of a similar sort. Empathic concern or sympathy not only include empathizing, but also entails having a positive regard or a non-fleeting concern for the other person.
24 Dec 09

Compassion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Compassion is a human emotion prompted by the pain of others. More vigorous than empathy, the feeling commonly gives rise to an active desire to alleviate another's suffering
  • Compassion is that which makes the heart of the good move at the pain of others.

Bosses who feel inadequate can turn into bullies

  • By showing when and why power leads to aggression, these findings are highly relevant as abusive supervision is such a pervasive problem in society
  • During role-playing sessions, study participants who felt their egos were under threat would go so far as to needlessly sabotage an underling's chances of winning money.
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23 Dec 09

Love (scientific views) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • our nervous systems are not self-contained, but rather demonstrably attuned to those around us and those with whom we are most close

Memory: Is it what makes us human?

  • Each time we recover a memory we take bits and pieces that are related to it and reconstruct the past. It's like writing a new book each time.
  • "It's like it's not there," he says of his memory. He agrees this is sad, "not being able to remember the joy you had, the fun you had." But his voice lacks the timbre of true despair. He does not know what he has forgotten.
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13 Dec 09

Social scientists build case for 'survival of the kindest'

  • people with a particular variation of the oxytocin gene receptor are more adept at reading the emotional state of others, and get less stressed out under tense circumstances.
  • Informally known as the "cuddle hormone,” oxytocin is secreted into the bloodstream and the brain, where it promotes , nurturing and romantic love, among other functions.
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09 Dec 09

The Key To Consistent Creativity and Productivity

  • The idea is to look at your daily workflow and to free up as many large blocks of time so that you can do some creative heavy-lifting
  • One of the most common themes that have come up from my work with creative folks is that they’ve chopped their days up into so many incoherent chunks that they resist starting anything because they can’t get “into it” long enough to make a difference. In other words, since they can’t fully engage with a task, they don’t.
08 Dec 09

How Other People’s Expectations Control Us | PsyBlog

  • They had a hunch that people automatically sense how others view them and immediately start exhibiting the expected behaviours.
  • by changing our expectations of others we can actually change their behaviour for worse or, should we choose, for the better
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