by madelaineweiss | Mar 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is all over the news right now. And it comes with something called Narcissistic Abuse, which has been reported by PsychCentral to adversely affect more than 158 million Americans. People with NPD are hurting in ways that are...
by madelaineweiss | Dec 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
“In the middle of a holiday meal, someone says something unintentionally (but unmistakably) bigoted. What will you do? Diana Sanchez and Kimberly Chaney say you shouldn’t let it pass.” * Really? They want us to engage that kind of negative energy. Who says...
by madelaineweiss | Oct 31, 2017 | Attention, Life
“Given all that, the next time you have the choice between meditating and sitting in a bar with your friends complaining about meditation class, you should probably seriously consider going to the bar, no matter what your happiness app says.”* Oh come on. Please tell...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 24, 2017 | Eating, Mismatch
Whether it be for the environment, one’s health, or other important causes, convincing people to adopt new or uncommon behaviors can be difficult. One reason is that societal norms powerfully reinforce the status quo…. “What leads people to overturn a...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 20, 2017 | Attention, Work
“Researchers in the United States have investigated mind wandering….the volunteers reported mind wandering 70% of the time.”* Scientists may refer to it as ‘stimulus independent’ or ‘default network’ thinking. Mindfulness tutors may liken the wandering mind to a bunch...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 28, 2017 | Narcissism, Spending
The researchers found that brain activity associated with happiness, along with self-reported happiness, increased simply after making a commitment to be generous to others. Happiness and happiness-related brain activity also went up when actually giving, the research...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 20, 2017 | Mismatch, Uncategorized
”Only through solidarity and cooperation within one’s own group was it possible to raise children and survive when competing against unknown and rivaling groups for scarce resources in pre-civilized times…”* There it is, folks. This could be what we are up...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 8, 2017 | Emotion, Mismatch, Talking
Similar to the “hate-watching” experience of viewing television programmes you don’t like because you enjoy mocking them, this can be seen as a mild form of “hate-reading.” Logging onto Facebook gives you the chance to be indignantly...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 30, 2017 | Mismatch, Play
How being hunter-gatherers boosted human brainpower and taught us to love exercise….New research suggests that the link between exercise and the brain is a product of our evolutionary history and our past as hunter-gatherers, and the same parts of the brain that are...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 11, 2017 | Storytelling Animal
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice….It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions. Viktor E. Frankl* Resilience is bending but not breaking...
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