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POPSChicago's "CeaseFire" program uses social interventions to lessen gun violenceby
enbar Yesterday 9:49 AM The program sends "reformed" shooters into the community to defuse violent situations and accustom potential shooters to other ways of resolving conflict, while simultaneously working with trusted, local opnion leaders (e.g., clergy) to spread the message that violent actions are unacceptable -- not just wrong, but also foolish ("uncool"). Described as employing an approach drawn from epidemiology, but I don't really see the connection.
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POPSEvo Psych "Like other critics, he has no doubt that evolution shaped the human brain. How could it be otherwise, when evolution has shaped every other human organ? But evo psych's claims that human behavior is constrained by mental modules that calcified in the Stone Age make sense "only if the environmental challenges remain static enough to sculpt an instinct over evolutionary time," Pigliucci points out. If the environment, including the social environment, is instead dynamic rather than static—which all evidence suggests—then the only kind of mind that makes humans evolutionarily fit is one that is flexible and responsive, able to figure out a way to make trade-offs, survive, thrive and reproduce in whatever social and physical environment it finds itself in"
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POPS15% of teens expect to die before age 35, and these expectations correlate with high-risk behaviorby
enbar Yesterday 1:21 AM I suppose this isn't surprising, but it's the first real, large-scale empirical confirmation that pessimism in teenagers is connected with dangerous behaviors (on the one hand) and with disadvantaging circumstances such as poverty or single-parent family situations (on the other hand). In other words, kids in bad situations are more likely both to believe they will die young and to act in ways that make it more likely that they will.
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POPSChaucer's Hosts Ecotherapy Book=Signing Another book is out about the positive aspects of spending more time in nature. This one is an "anthology of essays by psychologists who place a respect for nature" in an important place in their practice. Article written by Martha Sadler
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POPSMind Power- Inner Psychology to Success The term mind power and the subconscious mind power are described in many different ways.#break#In the psychosomatic sense mind power is labeled as ability to have emotions, imagination, memory, and will; and subconscious mind power is labeled as part of the normal individual’s personality in which mental processes function without consciousness under normal waking conditions.#break#A well-known story on the healing power of the mind the is story of "sacred bone" which took place in the middle ages.#break#From this story, it can be seen that the healing and medicinal power of our subconscious mind is limitless even in the face of the most deadly disease.
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POPSArs Psychiatrica This is a splendid blog site. Light and intelligent, it is packed full of great topic archives and links to numerous other great sites. Psychiatry, culture, art, philosophy. Something here for most people. Lovely collection of poetry too.
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POPShttp://www.behavmedfoundation.org The Behavioral Medicine Foundation provides CE, home study biofeedback training and biofeedback courses to licensed/certified clinicians in fields such as medicine, psychology, counseling, physical therapy, occupational therapy, social work, etc.
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POPSSo You Think They Noticed? Ever made a verbal gaffe in a presentation at work and thought to yourself, "I must have looked stupid"? Or had a date who burped loudly in a classy restaurant and you thought, "Great, I'll never be able to show my face here again"? In social psychology, the "spotlight effect" refers to our tendency to overestimate the amount of attention people pay to our actions--especially the embarrassing ones. Oftentimes it's all just in our mind. So don't fret over the mismatched socks.
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