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The Varieties of Human Work – Humanistic Systems
Nine proxies for work-as-done are outlined are: Work-as-Imagined Work-as-Prescribed Work-as-Disclosed Work-as-Analysed Work-as-Observed Work-as-Simulated…
Flow (psychology)
surprisingly good summary of the "flow state". "Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity…
Milton H. Erickson - Wikipedia
Reversals in psychology
The Effort Effect
According to a Stanford psychologist, you’ll reach new heights if you learn to embrace the occasional tumble.
Persuasive Tech
Unconscious Will Sways Actions, Desires, Say Researchers - TIME
HN: Why Talking to Yourself Might be The Highest Form of Intelligence
See also: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubberDucking
Gain Self-Insight Through Abstract Thinking — PsyBlog
How to Raise Racist Kids | GeekDad | Wired.com
Damn Interesting • The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
The Authoritarians
Believing You Can Get Smarter Makes You Smarter
Gene Expression: Intercourse and Intelligence
Mind Hacks: On the information alarmageddon
What research hasn't yet shown is that digital technology is having a significant negative influence on our minds or brains. In some cases, it's showing the…
Figures of Speech - Teach a Kid to Argue
Mind - Some Protect the Ego by Working on Their Excuses Early - NYTimes.com
watch out for this.
Seeing Around Corners
PsyBlog: Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies
Structured Procrastination
The procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.
Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature
Why Career Planning Is Time Wasted
22 Ways To Overclock Your Brain at Ririan Project
Silicon Superstitions
The Question of Beauty
The effect of LSD
an artist tries to draw under the influence of LSD. Very interesting :)
Why We Haven't Met Any Aliens
Psychology Today: Stand and Deliver
Do you check e-mail 100 times a day, only to answer two messages? Understanding why people really procrastinate is the key to purging that in-box and getting…
Trends in Japan
Once Kayo teaches children how to make these mud balls, they become absorbed in forming a sphere, and they put all their energy into polishing the ball until…
Bayes rules and the mind
interesting article on how Bayes theorem can be used to explain how the brain works... from Economist.com..
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