Archives for posts tagged ‘psychology’

Shiny New Ed 2.0 Video with Gratuitous Sex and Violence

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!From the YouTube blurb: [Stanford Psychology] Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the [...]

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History, Emotional Objectivity, and “A Class Divided”: An Election Day Classroom Fantasy

Preface: What I Learned from the Comments on My “Portrait of the Teacher as a Young Racist” Post I was surprised that my story of anti-black racism in the American South drew strong reactions in the comment thread from readers in New Zealand, Australia, England, and regions of the American Mid-west (where there were no [...]

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How Freedom Can Depress Students: More from Happiness Studies

[See here for Part 1: On the Death of Genius for the Sake of College] The fact is that human beings come into the world with a passion for control, they go out of the world the same way, and research suggests that if they lost their ability to control things at any point between [...]

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