Neuroscience and the Emotional Brain

How do neuroscientists understand emotion? The quest of brain science to understand emotion has not been one of significant philosophical insights or metaphysical concern, but rather one of a more narrowly tightened focus. Large but uncertain truths about the nature of the mind has not been their goal. Their prey is been small but sure: [...]

Five Flavors of Personality

What is personality? Simply defined, personality is the unique combination of characteristics that makes an individual who he or she is. When we speak of personality, we mean not only behavior and social attitudes but also temperament, beliefs, emotions and our mental state. We make casual observations and commentary on others’ personalities every day as [...]

Remarkability: Seth Godin’s Key to Success

Seth Godin has a message for people – which he delivers brilliantly and hilariously, in one of the funniest not-to-be-missed talks on TED. The message is simple: be different; be remarkably different, different in such a way that people will talk about just how different you are. That is not Godin’s only message. Seth Godin [...]

Religion and Health

Is religion good for your health?  Over half of America’s physicians say yes, according to the results of a random sample study reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine of two thousand practicing American clinicians across the spectrum of specialties. The study found 56% of the clinicians believed that religion and spirituality has either some [...]

Does How Your View of Time Make You Procrastinate?

Is procrastination only a matter of putting off needed tasks?  Scientists examining the issue are increasingly developing a subtler and more complex picture of how and why individuals procrastinate.  One major factor may be each person’s individual view of time. The time element in procrastination is far more than a matter of approaching a given [...]

Authenticity

Authenticity is a term that first came to prominence as a core theme of the existentialist philosophies of continental scholars and writers Soren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus, but since then has passed into common usage. Appropriately so, since the phenomenon it traces stretches as far back as the point [...]

Mid-Life Crisis – Can it Be Blamed on Male Menopause?

Everyone is familiar with menopause- the time in a woman’s life when certain hormonal changes occur that often cause drastic changes, both physiological and psychological in nature. What a majority of people do not realize is that as they age, males can experience certain of the same physical and emotional symptoms as women, as well as other conditions. Certainly, the ways [...]