December 2008

‘Snoop’ The secret language of stuff

Does what’s on your desk reveal what’s on your mind? Do those pictures on your walls tell true tales about your character? Is your favorite outfit about to give you away?  World renowned psychologist Sam Gosling is both charming and very engaging in this interview , one thing I’m sure of, is that he must never ever be allowed inside my office!
Source: Fora TV

Why we procrastinate and how to stop

As we all rush around like chickens with their heads cut off shopping for those last minute gifts- did you resolve last Christmas that you would be more organized this year?I know I did! As someone who is always putting off what can be done later I for one can learn from this new published research!

Wray Herbert writes for Newsweek on why we procrastinate and what we can do to follow through on at least some of those plans we have for the new year. Link to continue reading this article

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Newsweek, Mind Matters

Right to die


The final moments of Craig Ewert, 59, a retired university professor, suffering motor neurone disease who chose assisted suicide at a controversial Swiss euthanasia clinic are to be screened on British television for the first time. Do you think that Sky television is right to broadcast the assisted suicide? Let us know by taking our our poll below
Source: Telegraph

Are men hardwired to overspend?

 

Bling, foreclosures, rising credit card debt, bank and auto bailouts, upside down mortgages and perhaps a mid-life crisis new Corvette, all symptoms of compulsive overspending.

University of Michigan researcher Daniel Kruger looks to evolution and mating for an explanation. He theorizes that men overspend to attract mates. It all boils down, as it has for hundreds of thousands of years, to making babies.

Hardwired to overspend 

Professor Daniel Kruger looks to evolution to explain why we overspend                                                       

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