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		<title>Is Emotional Intelligence really an intelligence?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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Some people argue that Emotional Intelligence is actually a set of skills.  This makes me think, why is it called emotional intelligence, and not Emotional Skill, or something like that?  Is it really an intelligence?  Or if a set of skills can form an &#8220;emotional intelligence&#8221;, then can any set of skills [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some thoughts and questions on &#8220;flow&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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&#8216;Flow&#8217;, or the &#8216;flow state&#8217;, refers to what you might know as being &#8216;in the zone&#8217;.  It is that state where you are wrapped up in the activity that you are doing, so much so that you are &#8216;one&#8217; with it (in the sense of being fully engaged that is; not a strange zen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does money bring happiness? (v2.0)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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We&#8217;ve looked at this topic before.  Since then, I&#8217;ve written an essay on the relationship between income and well-being.  Although there has been a huge amount of work, the answer is not clear.  There isn&#8217;t a yes/no answer to this question, unfortunately, and it depends on many different things.  To explain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why should happiness boost the immune system?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happiness and Well-Being]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positive Psychology]]></category>
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There&#8217;s an apparent paradox in the research on positive emotions, and how they relate to the immune system, something that doesn&#8217;t make sense on first inspection.  But like so many things in psychology, I think the answer has something to do with sex.
I was quite surprised to find out how much research there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who needs self-esteem anyway?</title>
		<link>http://generallythinking.com/blog/who-needs-self-esteem-anyway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positive Psychology]]></category>

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I discovered an interesting paper by Ryan and Brown (1), which got me thinking.  This paper proposes a view of self-esteem that I hadn&#8217;t come across before.  
First, they explain their view of the self.  Most researchers use the &#8217;self-as-object&#8217; definition &#8211; we have a self-concept, which can be complex, simple, positive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can humour be learned?</title>
		<link>http://generallythinking.com/blog/can-humour-be-learned/</link>
		<comments>http://generallythinking.com/blog/can-humour-be-learned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attraction and Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love and Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positive Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Therapy]]></category>

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How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb?  Only one, but it takes six months and the bulb has to want to change!
Humour has a potentially valuable place in therapy; a large number of papers argue for the benefits of it in a therapeutic setting.   There is also a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The evolution of optimism</title>
		<link>http://generallythinking.com/blog/the-evolution-of-optimism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positive Psychology]]></category>

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There is a lot of information out there about the benefits of optimism in numerous areas of life.  The research shows that optimists aren&#8217;t necessarily blind to the world, seeing it with rose-tinted glasses, which is a common criticism of books and programs aimed at developing optimism in people.  In fact, optimism seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can we develop psychological resilience through physical activity?</title>
		<link>http://generallythinking.com/blog/can-we-develop-psychological-resilience-through-physical-activity/</link>
		<comments>http://generallythinking.com/blog/can-we-develop-psychological-resilience-through-physical-activity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Materialism, money, and modern life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positive Psychology]]></category>

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Psychological &#8216;resilience&#8217; refers to the differences between people in how they respond to and cope with difficult or stressful experiences.  People who are highly resilient would be less affected, recover more quickly, and/or might actually find such events to be growth experiences.  For people low in resilience, the opposite would be true.
Now here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flowers = Happiness? The emotional impact of plants</title>
		<link>http://generallythinking.com/blog/flowers-happiness/</link>
		<comments>http://generallythinking.com/blog/flowers-happiness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happiness and Well-Being]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positive Psychology]]></category>

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In positive psychology, most theories of positive emotion have focused on discovering their relative costs and benefits to humans.  These theories, to a greater and lesser degree, see positive emotions as being evolved adaptations to our environment.  Greater mood brings wider though-action repertoires, allowing us to build our resources (1), they regulate our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional Information</title>
		<link>http://generallythinking.com/blog/emotional-information/</link>
		<comments>http://generallythinking.com/blog/emotional-information/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category>

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In the previous article on emotional intelligence we saw how an intelligence is based on the ability to think in abstract ways, and to learn and adapt to an environment.  Maybe you&#8217;d previously heard about how we have multiple intelligences; IQ, social intelligence, practical intelligence, emotional intelligence, and so on.  
What distinguishes these [...]]]></description>
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