Description: Ok, imagine you are sitting in your first class in a new course at college or university (yes in the old world where you were sitting in a lecture hall with 200 to 300 other students). Further, imagine that the professor arrives and announces that they have a few rules that MUST be followed… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Mindfulness
Psychology of COVID-19 — Coping Tune-up
Description: How do you cope when you are stressed? I mean exactly what do you do? Do you act in ways that are adaptive or maladaptive? How are your coping with the current global and personal issues related to the coronavirus pandemic? If you are not sure how you typically cope you can go here… Read more »
Studying Mindfulness: The Operationalization Challenge
Description: You cannot have missed the multitude of posts, offers and claims out there regarding the value of Mindfulness. Learning how to be more present in our current moments has been suggested as a way of focusing attention, reducing anxiety, and avoiding stress. But what about the data? Does it support the claims? And more… Read more »
Mindfulness and Academic Performance: What is the Key?
Description: What does ‘being mindful’ mean? Mindfulness medication essentially involves clearing one’s mind of distractions and focusing closely and only of the here and now. How might doing that be of academic assistance to middle school students? Think about how you would answer that question from a psychological research perspective. If it helps what might… Read more »
Stressed and Lonely? Search and Explore Equanimity!
Description: Try and design a study that would not just look at but actually make a difference in people’s lives using the following finding from other research studies: Social isolation and loneliness is harmful to you not just in terms of your social wellbeing but also in terms of your physical health AND your longevity…. Read more »
FOMO versus JOMO: Things to think about right NOW!
Description: You have probably heard about FOMO or the fear of missing out which is often discussed as a serious hazard of involvement in social media. The idea is that postings on social media sites (like Instagram) are typically created and posted with the purpose of showing that the poster is having a great time,… Read more »
Social Anxiety: Pre-Event Tactics May be Making Things Worse Not Better
Description: There are indications that the number of young adults dealing with high levels of anxiety or worrying about their current levels of stress and anxiety have jumped up quite a bit in recent years (see Reference Section below). In this and a related post to follow shortly I am going to look at a… Read more »
Mindfulness and Social Exclusion: Overcoming the Impact of Being Banish’d
Description: Think back (perhaps back to your grade school days) and think of a time or situation where you got left out by your peers, where you did not get invited to a birthday party or asked to play in a recess game. How did that make you feel? Does that sort of thing not… Read more »
Who or What is Telling What to Who? Dream Interpretation Today
Description: If you have taken an introductory psychology course you have likely heard a bit about Freud’s psychodynamic theory and about his views on the subject of dreams and the manifest (surface) and latent (deep, symbolic) content he argued that they hold. The idea that dreams are “the royal road to the unconscious” (Freud), in… Read more »
Improve Your Exam Performances by Thinking Metacognitively
Description: Think about the last time you went into an exam feeling like you had the material down tight and were going to do well on the exam. How did you actually do on that exam? If you did not do as well as you thought you were going to do going in what did… Read more »
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