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Comment on Week 2 by l.beech

l.beech — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:34:23 +0000

Thanks for the find Rick. I have linked the article to our site. Thanks again for finding the article for us.

Comment on Week 2 by Rick

Rick — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:35:27 +0000

If “Unhappy Mothers Survey” is not the title of the article, it might be “The New Science of Happiness” article - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1015902-1,00.html . Even if it isn’t, it’s interesting.
University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin Seligman wants to create the “vision of a new goal for psychology… to look at what actively made people feel fulfilled, engaged and meaningfully happy.”
Page 3, Paragraphs 3 & 4 are about a study in Texas comprised of 900 women.
Seligman is starting to hit on God’s design, probably without knowing it, on the last paragraph of page 6 - “but the cerebral virtues–curiosity, love of learning–are less strongly tied to happiness than interpersonal virtues like kindness, gratitude and capacity for love.”
Apart from these humanistic observations, we learn so much from our Maker depending on him to actually do it. But our goal is not to do, in order to get.

Comment on Week 2 by Rick

Rick — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:04:19 +0000

I’m having trouble finding the “Unhappy Mothers Survey (Time Magazine, January 17, 2005)”.

Can anyone help with a link?

Comment on Emotional Balance by kmccallum

kmccallum — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:29:38 +0000

This is a tremendous article, Joe. Thanks for finding it. It confirms, first of all, what Ankenman was teaching last Wednesday about how some people (esp. in extreme Tribal & extreme Diffuse love spheres) thrive on negative emotions and interpret them as love feelings. And secondly, how they do so in order to fill their Love Banks. I archived it at http://neoxenos.info/biblenet/Counseling-LoveEthics-Research/BulliesBrains for future reference.

Comment on Emotional Balance by Joe

Joe — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:30:05 +0000

Did you see the latest research on bullies? It confirms what you are teaching in Love Ethics.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081107/sc_nm/us_brain_bullies

Brain scans of teens with a history of aggressive bullying behavior suggest that they may actually get pleasure out of seeing someone else in pain, U.S. researchers said on Friday.

While this may come as little surprise to those who have been victimized by bullies, it is not what the researchers expected, Benjamin Lahey of the University of Chicago, who worked on the study, said in a telephone interview.

“The reason we were surprised is the prevailing view is these kids are cold and unemotional in their aggression,” said Lahey, whose study appears in the journal Biological Psychology.

“This is looking like maybe they care very much,” said Lahey, who worked on the study with Jean Decety, also of the University of Chicago.

In the aggressive teens, areas of the brain linked with feeling rewarded — the amygdala and ventral striatum — became very active when they observed pain being inflicted on others.

Comment on Emotional Balance by lbeech

lbeech — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:46:59 +0000

Whew - For a minute there I thought you’d posted a picture of Alfred Hitchcock.
http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/images/hitch_portrait.jpg

Comment on Framework for Change by kmccallum

kmccallum — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:37:14 +0000

You’re a sweetheart, Lisa, pure & simple. But I do appreciate it, I was bustin’ a gut trying to get this out in time for the Cols peeps.

Comment on Framework for Change by lbeech

lbeech — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:36:05 +0000

Awesome write up - the cumulative concepts were clear and understandable - Need I say more?

Comment on Teaching Tools by lbeech

lbeech — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:24:00 +0000

Keith - thanks for restructuring this page - It was a quick draft that I never polished. It looks great.

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