You may be familiar with this scenario. You’re doing an essay, or revising for an exam, and there’s one annoying paper or book that you just can’t seem to find. Before you shell out for a full price book or a pdf paper (pdfs can cost $20 each!), there are a few tricks …
Archive for November, 2009
Mental Workout produce Mp3s and mobile phone apps focused around resolving issues and improving mental performance. I’ve been listening to their Positive Psychology product for a week or two now, and thought I’d let you know a little bit about it. The package contains 12 tracks, each covering a different area of applied positive psychology, [ Read More ]
Categories: News / Misc
A lucid dream is quite a different experience to a normal one. In a normal dream, the experience is like a film. You’re just watching what goes on, albeit from a first-person perspective, and you cannot control anything despite an illusory sense of agency. In a lucid dream, you wake up during the film. …
Categories: Self-Help
Welcome to the fourth edition of the Psychology Articles Carnival! The Psychology Articles Carnival, predictably enough, is a blog carnival showcasing posts relating to scientific psychology from the previous month. Often they will be articles I’ve come across and want to tell you about, but psychology bloggers are free to submit their own articles for [ Read More ]
Categories: Psychology
What happens to the brain if you spend 44,000 hours in focused meditation? This is a question Richard Davidson and his neuroscience team asked. To answer it, they took experienced Tibetan monks to their lab at the University of Wisconsin, and took various scans of their brains. Is the Buddhist brain fundamentally different than …
Categories: Meditation
