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“Si existiera algo que quisiéramos cambiar en el niño, deberíamos primeramente examinar y ver si no hay algo que podría ser mejor para cambiar en nosotros mismos”. Carl Jung
Luis Benítez • Carl Jung. Un chamán del siglo XX (Conocer a...) (Spanish Edition)
Una investigación realizada en la Universidad de Bar-Ilán de Israel, sobre la técnica del rechazo y la retirada, demuestra que si la primera petición es tan extrema que pueda resultar una insensatez, su efecto es contraproducente. En esos casos, quien ha hecho la primera petición extrema no parece estar actuando de buena fe.
Robert B. Cialdini • Influencia. La Psicología De La Persuasión
Accommodation to parental needs often (but not always) leads to the “as-if personality.” This person develops in such a way that he reveals only what is expected of him and fuses so completely with what he reveals that one could scarcely guess how much more there is to him behind this false self. He cannot develop and differentiate his true self,
... See moreAlice Miller • The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
By far the best theory for describing the principles of our irrational decisions is something called Prospect Theory. Created in 1979 by the psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, prospect theory describes how people choose between options that involve risk, like in a negotiation. The theory argues that people are drawn to sure things over
... See moreChris Voss • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
But over years of study, when given the choice between hanging out with a robot and talking to one of the researchers on the MIT team, most seniors, grateful, choose the person.
Sherry Turkle • Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Adler was very critical of education by reward and punishment. It leads to mistaken lifestyles in which people think, If no one is going to praise me, I won’t take appropriate action and If no one is going to punish me, I’ll engage in inappropriate actions, too. You already have the goal of wanting to be praised when you start picking up litter.
... See moreIchiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
The good child has been deprived of one of the central ingredients of a properly privileged upbringing: the experience of other people witnessing and surviving their mischief.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778),