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Moral Judgments can be Changed Almost Instantly by Delivering a magnetic pulse to an Area of the Brain

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I was listening to NPR (National Public Radio) on my way to work yesterday and heard a story that caught my attention. Did you ever think that magnets and morality could be related? According to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a person’s moral judgments can be changed almost [...]

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UPS just dropped my next 3 books. All three from Malcolm Gladwell

Hi everyone! I arrived home from a day trip to Hershey Park, PA and found the three books I ordered from Amazon in the mail. The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers. All from Malcolm Gladwell. I’m really exited :-D (I have been thinking of getting a Kindle, but the feeling I had today when I [...]

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At work don’t give orders. Empower!

I learnt something today. Yesterday I had a meeting with the director of my program in which we agreed to make some minor changes in my unit. Today I broke the news to my team and they weren’t welcome very cheerfully, especially by veteran staff. Why? Obviously (now that I have time to think), people doesn’t [...]

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A bilingual environment affects infant development, changes personality

Have you ever wondered if there was any  difference in human brain development or change in personality when a person has grown up in a bilingual household or environment? Researchers from Baruch College and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, studied how bilingual people’s personality is unconsciously affected when switching languages, according to an article published by [...]

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Future Shock. Too much change in a too short period of time

Times are changing, they always are. The particularity nowadays, is that things are changing faster than ever almost everywhere. Alvin Toffler coined the term “Future Shock”. He referred to it as a “personal perception of too much change in a too short period of time”. We are experiencing an immediacy of the future. The future [...]

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Psychoanalysis: yesterday vs. today. Why we need to adapt to our new world

How do I start? It´s gonna be difficult to write this post in a way that everyone can ready it and at the same time don´t commit heresy by not being rigorous and awaken the wrath of my colleagues. Also, I don´t want to get into the “politics” of Freudian Psychoanalysis and the  “war” it´s [...]

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