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• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s

• If Mervyn King had a favourite phrase of the moment, it would be: "It's levels, stupid - not growth rates."
• "output gap" - the difference between the actual level of output and the level that the economy could sustain without triggering inflation.
• The Bank now thinks the economy will return to reasonable growth but output is more than 8 per cent lower than it would have been had we continued to grow normally.

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• Sales at U.S. retailers fell less than forecast in September

• “Some members thought that an increase in the maximum amount of the committee’s purchases of agency MBS could help to reduce economic slack more quickly,”

• Home loans 60 days or more past due climbed to 5.3 percent of loans through June 30, up from 4.8 percent on March 31 and 3 percent a year earlier
• In the U.S., 26 percent of borrowers owe more than their home is worth,

• European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said in Venice on Oct. 8 that U.S. policy makers’ preference for a strong dollar is “extremely important in the present circumstances.”
• Central banks’ moves away from the dollar are a temporary trend that will reverse once the Fed starts raising interest rates from near zero,
• America’s economy will grow 2.4 percent in 2010, compared with 0.95 percent in the euro-zone, and 1 percent in Japan, median predictions show

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• There is overwhelming evidence that the tone of your voice carries a significant amount of information for the audience. In well-spoken English, there is a change of pitch on every stressed syllable.
• There is overwhelming evidence that the tone of your voice carries a significant amount of information for the audience. In well-spoken English, there is a change of pitch on every stressed syllable.
• Another Irishman, William Butler Yeats, opined on the subject of content and style in this way: "I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept."
  

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  So what's the best way to plan a trip? The

• get disappointed.
• get angry.
• * confront me on my actions
• * realize that I lied to them.
• * get frustrated by the inconsistency in my behavior.
• * no longer trust me.
• resent me for being dishonest.

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• Peer rejection, once established, tends to be stable over time
• more likely to persist after a child transfers to another school,
• greater risk for internalizing problems like depression
• There are programs available for helping children who suffer from social rejection
• rejection impairs will power or self-regulation.
• the negative effects of rejection last longer in individuals who are high in social anxiety.
• individuals who recently experienced social rejection were better than both accepted and control participants in their ability to discriminate between real and fake smiles.
• Simply being made to wait, for example, could be viewed as a rejection and met with extreme anger and hostility.
• can then lead to defensiveness and self-fulfilling prophecies that undermine social relationships.
• Attachment theory suggests that rejection from parents could lead to rejection sensitivity
• peer rejection in children is associated with increased rejection sensitivity.

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• oo tired to tell the truth: Self-control resource depletion and dishonesty.
• It's the thought that counts: The role of hostile cognition in shaping aggressive responses to social exclusion.
• oward a physiology of dual-process reasoning and judgment: Lemonade, willpower, and effortful rule-based analysis.
• Making choices impairs subsequent self-control: A limited resource account of decision making, self-regulation, and active initiative.
• The need to belong: Understanding the interpersonal and inner effects of social exclusion
• How emotion shapes behavior: Feedback, anticipation, and reflection, rather than direct causation
• Violence restrained: Effects of self-regulatory capacity and its depletion on aggressive behavior
• Self-esteem, belongingness, and worldview validation: Does belongingness exert a unique influence upon self-esteem?
• Self-regulation and sexual restraint: Dispositionally and temporarily poor self-regulatory abilities contribute to failures at restraining sexual behavior.
• The physiology of willpower: Linking blood glucose to self-control.
• Self-control relies on glucose as a limited energy source: Willpower is more than a metaphor.
• Increasing self-regulatory strength via exercise can reduce the depleting effect of suppressing stereotypes
• Does social exclusion motivate interpersonal reconnection? Resolving the "porcupine problem."
• Restoring the self: Positive affect helps improve self-regulation following ego depletion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 379-384.
• Self-Regulation and Personality: How Interventions Increase Regulatory Success, and How Depletion Moderates the Effects of Traits on Behavior. Journal of Personality, 74, 1773-1801.

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• They distract themselves as a way of  regulating their emotions such as fear of failure.
• avoiders, who may be avoiding fear of failure or even fear of  success
• they would rather have others think they lack effort than  ability.
• Not  making a decision absolves procrastinators of responsibility for the  outcome of events.
• Procrastination destroys teamwork in the workplace and private  relationships.

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• a frequent source of aggravation for family and friends
• butt of co-workers’ jokes
• cause of countless speeding tickets
• common personality characteristics such as anxiety, a
• penchant for thrill-seeking, or low levels of self-control.
• motivations are often subconscious
• adrenaline rush of that last minute sprint
• ego boost from over-scheduling and filling each moment with activity

• difficulty conforming to rules and structure.

   
• hronic underestimators of time
• magical thinking—eternal optimism even in the presence of contradictory evidence

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  Social Exclusion and the Deconstructed State: Time Perception,

   

  Meaninglessness, Lethargy, Lack of Emotion, and Self-Awareness
• Flow is the

   

  opposite of deconstructed numbness, even though both can be

   

  described as some kind of immersion in the present. In flow,

   

  awareness is absorbed in some deeply satisfying activity, and so

   

  each moment is rich. In deconstruction, the present serves as an

   

  escape from meaningful activity, and so it is experienced as

   

  relatively empty, even oppressively boring. The two states have

   

  opposite effects: Someone in flow finds that time flies, whereas

   

  someone in a deconstructed state finds that time drags
• Impulsive or aimless activity, automatic responses,

   

  and simple compliance with clear external demands would not be

   

  prevented
• At a simpler level,

   

  meaningful thought may be aversive in the wake of rejection

   

  because the person is tempted to ask why he or she was rejected,

   

  and many possible answers would reflect badly on the self
• Possibly they thought they would lose face if they

   

  acknowledged how upset they were after being rejected by other
• emotional distress itself stems from self-awareness in

   

  connection with recent failures or setbacks
• death be-

   

  comes desirable as a form of oblivion
• Be-

   

  cause most people desire to gain social acceptance and maintain

   

  satisfying relationships with others, an experience of social exclu-

   

  sion could signify that something is wrong with the self.
• This fits the view that social exclusion

   

  produces a state incompatible with meaning—thus, a decon-

   

  structed state
• , these studies

   

  show that social exclusion leads individuals to slow down, con-

   

  serve energy, and generally behave in a lethargic and passive

   

  fashion.

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• mulus could help restore the depleted energy. They report on four studies where the positive mood stimulus was a surprise gift or short clips of stan

• . In Japanese culture, “individual gratification is valued much less than is advancement of the fortunes of the group.
• ay of an outcome results in the perception that the outcome is less valuable than an outcome which is more readily achieved.
• An example of this is signing bonuses.
• When a person sets an alarm clock, they are making a precommitted response to wake up early in the morning. Hence, that person is more likely to exercise the self-controlled decision to wake up, rather than to fall back in bed for a little more sleep.
• doing regular exercise,
• Self control was also shown to improve upon exercise
• posture
• Self control increases with age due t
• They include our ability to estimate time
• Those with high conscientiousness are shown to be better at maintaining principles for approaching a task, and those with high agreeableness are shown to be better at inhibiting a dominant response in favour of a subdominant one
• There is external locus of control which is similar to determinism and there is internal locus of control which is similar to free will.
• The best way to learn self control is with free will where people are able to perceive they are making their own choices.

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• Sociologists point out that the definition of maturity is delayed gratification. A child needs everything right now. It's the reason they love candy rather than a healthy salad. The instant sweet taste is enticing to their palate. Only with time will they acquire higher tastes by delaying gratification. Whereas today they love the taste of Coke, years down the line they will come to appreciate a fine wine. Sex is the same. There are boys and men. The boys want an orgasm, right now, and use their wives to obtain it. Their sex life is deplorable and even worse for their wives. The men are prepared to delay gratification and engage in extended foreplay.

• Chronic lateness is related to procrastination. Latecomers and
   procrastinators have trouble NOT with time, but with self-discipline.
• meeting with people you don't like, then your lateness is
   anxiety-based.
• Your inner brat balks at exerting
   itself, and at being told what to do.
• self-discipline and your inner brat
• rationalizes that you don't have to conform to a rigid schedule.

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• In cognitive oriented therapies, the objective is typically to identify and monitor thoughts, assumptions, beliefs and behaviors that are related and accompanied to debilitating negative emotions and to identify those which are dysfunctional, inaccurate, or simply unhelpful.

• "the late scored higher in several areas,  including anxiety and distractibility, while placing somewhat below the timely  in the areas of self-esteem and self-discipline."
• usually procrastinators who have trouble resisting  immediate gratification

• Really smart kids tend to be the biggest procrastinators because they  were able to get away with it more," she said. "Their habits were created long  ago." 
• said most people do best by relearning how long tasks take.
• spend a week tracking how long regular activities take

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