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Of the many emerging descriptions of our social brain, for me the simplest and most elegant is the highly regarded Social Baseline Theory of Lane Beckes and James A. Coan, two researchers at the University of Virginia.
Bruce Springsteen • Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)
The Watkins define an ego state as “an organized system of behavior and experience whose elements are bound together by some common principle, and which is separated from other such states by a boundary that is more or less permeable.”
Don Kerson • Getting Unstuck; Unravelling the Knot of Depression Attention and Trauma
Only if nothing else is lingering in our working memory and taking up valuable mental resources can we experience what Allen calls a “mind like water” - the state where we can focus on the work right in front of us without getting distracted by competing thoughts.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
There is very little social redundancy in weak ties.
Damon Centola • Change
Psychology
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In 2000, a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the field’s most prestigious journal, did just that. Today, this paper still stands as the most rigorous examination of the links between personality and handshaking.
Sam Gosling • Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
Cognitive science teaches us that what we think of as ourselves derives not from a direct experience but from a collage of sensations and images—self-representations, pictures we have of ourselves.