Is beauty just a cultural thing, based on whatever the common consensus is at any particular time? Or is there a ‘true beauty’, that we find in all cultures and times? Actually it’s a little of both. Do you want to know which aspects of ‘beauty’ are arbitrary, and which seem to be biological? …
You’ve probably heard the advice “When you’re doing well, give yourself a reward!” – it finds its way into just about every self-help book you’ve ever picked up. But are there any times where this is bad advice? Why, yes there are – when your motivation for a task is intrinsic. I have explained what [ Read More ]
“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticise or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.” – Winston Churchill It’s not easy running a country – governments have a difficult job. They have to take care of the health, wealth [ Read More ]
In the first half of my degree, my focus was not entirely on my studies. I spent most of my time in bars and clubs, getting drunk and chasing girls. So naturally, I failed to complete a few essays here and there. In atonement for this, I had to do extra work …
I recently described the concept of priming, along with some research that has been done to demonstrate this effect. This article follows directly from that one, so if I mention something that I ‘discussed earlier’, it’s in there. The priming studies are all very interesting, but the question now becomes, how are we going …
Practically nothing you can measure about a person is completely fixed. Some days you don’t concentrate as well, some days your more sociable, some days you have more energy. Even your height varies subtly throughout the day. If we’re interested in positive psychology and self-improvement, a constructive line of inquiry would be working out what [ Read More ]
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