“Believe it or not,” the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker proclaims in his new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, “today we may be living in the most peaceable era in our species’ existence.”
SANTA CRUZ —This term at the University of California-Santa Cruz, a brand new theme was created for a floor in one of the residence halls that focuses on training in nonviolent communication. The 24 students in the program are all living on one f…
19 minutes | Ground-breaking discoveries about early childhood and the human brain have offered vital clues about the roots of human violence and social disharmony. Our brains’ empathy centres grow – or fail…See it on Scoop.it, via Radic…
Positive thinking sounds useful on the surface. (Most of us would prefer to be positive rather than negative.) But “positive thinking” is also a soft and fluffy term that’s easy to dismiss. In the real world, it rarely carries the sam…
No. Once the door slams shut on an opportunity we tend to fool ourselves into thinking we made the right choice, even if we didn’t. By leaving options open our mind keeps weighing the possibilities over and over, leading to diminshed happiness: …
