Tag Archives: Psychology

Inmate IQ scores raises questions about death penalty

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68-year old Freddie Lee Hall, a Florida inmate convicted in 1978 for murdering a 21-year old pregnant woman, believes that he is safe from the death penalty because he is mentally disabled. Now the...

Brain Scans Show Dogs React to Vocal Signals

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After dogs were placed beneath MRI scanners, it was found to the utter amazement of scientists that they react to vocal signals in the selfsame way as human beings. Sobbing or snickering elicited an...

Richard Florida: Economic Trends All Entrepreneurs Should Follow

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Richard Florida wears many hats, including being an editor, professor, author and thought leader. He is currently a Senior Editor at The Atlantic and the author of the classic best-seller “The...

Mindset: It’s Really a Lot More Than a Head Game

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Legions of writers—from Dale Carnegie to Napoleon Hill to Norman Vincent Peale to Anthony Robbins—have touted the value of positive mental attitude. Scores of rah-rah speakers evangelize on the...

Flow States: Answers To The Three Most Common Questions About Optimal Performance

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About a month back, my organization—the Flow Genome Project—put out a call for questions. We asked our community, when it came to understanding flow states, if there was anything they’d really like...

How Creativity is Enhanced by Technology

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I recently wrote a post about how marketers will need to learn to rely less on judgment and intuition in the era of big data.  It’s a controversial subject, especially since many marketers pride...

The Reason Personality Tests Go Viral Will Blow Your Mind

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Please tell me the web personality quiz is NOT making a comeback. Maybe the popularity of these quizzes never even declined. After rolling my eyes many many times this week, I eventually caved in. I...

Goldie Hawn Wants Mindful Works

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Goldie Hawn is taking her organization The Hawn Foundation one step ahead. The Academy Award Winning actress is going to launch “Mindful Works” in collaboration with Mark Bertolini, Chairman, CEO and...
    






A Digital-Life Lesson: How Steve Jobs Almost Ruined Neil Young

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Neil Young played Carnegie Hall last week in a series of 4 critically acclaimed concerts. I was lucky enough to be at the second night. And what I saw, in addition to a show deserving all the praise...
    






Talk Outside the Box

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Our imaginations are limited by our experience; our routine; our habitual ways of working, thinking, and dreaming. This isn’t intended to be dispiriting news. But it is weighty news worth serious...