Art Markman, PhD @ Psychology Today
There is a lot of evidence that people are overconfident in many judgments about themselves. If you ask a group of people how talented they are at some skill relative to the population as a whole (or even relative to a specific group that they are a part of), the [...]

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By Aaron Ben-Zev, Ph.D. w/ Psychology Today
“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.” Henry Louis Mencken
When I talk about what people do when being consistent, I mean that they generally behave in similar ways under similar circumstances. When [...]

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Chris Chatham | June 25 2006
In a fascinating review of the cognitive neuroscience of attention, authors Raz and Buhle note that most research on attention focuses on defining situations in which it is no longer required to perform a task – in other words, the automatization of thought and [...]

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Authored by Jay Dixit of Psychology Today
We live in the age of distraction. Yet one of life’s sharpest paradoxes is that your brightest future hinges on your ability to pay attention to the present.
A friend was walking in the desert when he found the telephone to God. The [...]

Authored by Daniel Gilbert
Are we just too stupid to be happy? Psychologist Daniel Gilbert reveals some of the common mental mistakes that defeat our search for happiness.
Daniel Gilbert says we get in the way of our own happiness because we don’t understand how our mind works and the tricks it plays on us. The Harvard [...]

Only a Game @ TypePad
How do you know if you are significant? This question lures us the wrong way, it invites us to judge ourselves on some criteria of importance – do we escape the ignominy of insignificance, it seems to ask. But no-one is truly insignificant. The worst that can happen is that you [...]

Authored by Moe w/ Mystery of Existence
In the beginning of shadow work, it may be difficult to find here what we see in others. After all, I am a relatively nice guy, so how can it be that the monster over there is mirroring something in me?
The trick is to be specific enough, and also [...]

Authored by Kelly Sosan Bearer
Anyone who has seriously committed themselves to or even dabbled with a spiritual practice knows that no amount of practice changes our experience of family during the holidays. Why is that? One of the great contributions of Western modernity to the understanding of self are the insights into the shadow. Freud [...]

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Authored by William Harryman of IOC
The still emerging field of neuroscience has revolutionized our understanding of human behavior and the human mind. We now know that certain chemicals (or the lack of them) in the brain can cause specific mental illnesses, and that we can treat these illnesses [...]

Chen-Bo Zhong | Scientific American

Chen-Bo Zhong is an assistant professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. In recent years, he’s explored a wide variety of topics, from the benefits of relying on the unconscious to generate creative insights to the reasons people often use temperature metaphors (”icy stares,” “cold shoulders,” [...]