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20 May 09

A Professor’s Comments on Mental Illness Draw Ire in China - China Journal - WSJ

“When [a petitioner] insists on his particular point of view, that point of view is a symptom of paranoia,”

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19 May 09

Pentagon Wants Loving Chat-Bot to Calm Troops’ Kids | Danger Room

Virtual Dialogue Application for Families of Deployed Service Members plays pre-recorded msgs from troops when prompted by phrases like "I love you"

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The China Beat: Painted Skin: To Scare or Not to Scare?

The Chinese demon is not a figure of existential enigma or radical evil nor does not radically call into question our humanity or fundamental cosmic justice.

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The China Beat: FAQ#7: Why were Chinese people so angry about the attempts to seize the torch in the international torch relay?

In China, the majority of public expressions take place in a vast field of rituals and symbols, while protest in small spaces of critical thought. The U.S. is the opposite

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WTF!? Internet Addiction Nominated for Entry in the Manual of Mental Disorders

Jerold Block proposes adding internet addiction to DSM-IV in American Journal of Psychiatry

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13 Mar 09

Traditional education treats Internet addiction

recite the ancient Chinese classics for a few hours every day, in combination with a healthy diet and physical exercise

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Local authorities in Shandong put petitioners in mental hospital

Petitioners in Xintai, Shandong Province who tried to go to Beijing and appeal their grievances to the central government were put in a mental hospital by local authorities

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08 Dec 08

Biological abnormality of impaired reading is constrained by culture : Abstract : Nature

Impaired reading of alphabetic scripts is associated with dysfunction of left temporoparietal brain regions, but left middle frontal gyrus are central to Chinese script dyslexia

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07 May 08

Psychology of Intelligence Analysis — Central Intelligence Agency

Chapters on Thinking about Thinking, Keeping an Open Mind and Structuring Analytical Problems... could be good for bloggers. Hell, everybody.

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30 Apr 08

Reason Magazine - The Paranoid Style Is American Politics

"they inhabit a cosmos of endless invisible war, in which wizards are engaged in fending off the attacks of insane, predatory gods and all deaths are caused by spiritual murder and have to be avenged by the magical massacre of whole (distant, unknown) communities." Malkin, or Piaroa Indians?

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09 Apr 08

Dyslexia Differs By Language

We speculate that different genes may be involved in dyslexia in Chinese and English readers.

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12 Jan 08

MIT: Culture influences brain function

Americans, when making relative judgments that are typically harder for them, activated brain regions involved in attention-demanding mental tasks. East Asians showed the opposite tendency, engaging the brain's attention system more for absolute judgments

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29 Oct 07

Publish and Perish - Avi Klein

A LaRouche discourse on local Marxist politics might veer into a discussion of the proper pitch to be used in bel canto singing, before touching on Plato, Aristotle, Friedrich Schiller, and concluding with a riff on the grain trade.

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09 Oct 07

The Homepage of Professor Philip G. Zimbardo

"The Lucifer Effect": Stanford Prison Experiment and the like.

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