Psychology 02 (Feb 14 - Dec 25)

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Following orders 'distances us' from our own actions
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35582986

[winston]

7 Investing Lessons from Behavioral Psychology

Source: Psy Fi Blog

http://www.psyfitec.com/2016/02/7-inves ... ioral.html

[winston]

How to Force People To Do Anything (and Have Them Thank You For It)

By Esther Inglis-Arkell

Source: io9.com

http://www.mindpowernews.com/ForcePeople.htm

[winston]

How to Make Friends and Interrogate People

A new guide from some former intelligence agents promises to train you to elicit the truth from ‘targets’ such as ‘the plumber’ or your own children

By Sam Leith

Source: The Guardian

http://www.mindpowernews.com/CIATruth.htm

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3 Simple Mind Tricks to Control Any Conversation

Hypnotize Someone

By Cameron Crawford

Source: Black Ops Hypnosis 2.0

http://www.mindpowernews.com/AlphaCommand.htm

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How to Be More Interesting

By Eric Barker

Source: Time Magazine

http://www.mindpowernews.com/BeInteresting.html

[winston]

Why so many smart people aren’t happy

It’s a paradox: Shouldn’t the most accomplished be well equipped to make choices that maximize life satisfaction?

By Joe Pinsker

There are three things, once one’s basic needs are satisfied, that academic literature points to as the ingredients for happiness:-
1. having meaningful social relationships,
2. being good at whatever it is one spends one’s days doing and
3. having the freedom to make life decisions independently

Source: The Atlantic

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-many- ... 00060.html

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Psychologists Reveal the Best Way to Boost Your Mood

Helping others boosts your mood more than helping yourself, new study suggests.

By Jacqueline Howard

Source: Huffington Post

http://www.mindpowernews.com/BoostMood.html

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How to Use Distractions to Your Advantage

Have you ever noticed that you find it difficult to ignore the chatter of a radio station playing in the background, or that your best ideas come not from where you were looking, but from something you saw out of the corner of your eye?

Your story fits with a new line of research that’s showing highly creative people tend to have minds that pay attention in a particularly “open” kind of way.

Specifically, psychologists say that people who’ve had creative success often have “leaky attention,” meaning that when they are concentrating on one thing, other irrelevant information can still seep into their consciousness (information that’s irrelevant to their current task, but potentially very useful longer term).

To switch metaphors, it’s as if creative types have an attentional system that’s less of a spotlight and more of a lantern that picks up a wide range of information (just as developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik says babies have). In contrast, most other adults have more of an attentional spotlight that zooms in on one thing at a time.

These laboratory findings could have real-life implications.

Source: 99U.com

http://99u.com/articles/53804/how-to-us ... -advantage

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This Abstract Image Test Will Determine Your Dominant Personality Trait

Source: Buzz Hearts

http://www.buzzhearts.com/en/blog/this- ... trait/165/