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Professor R. M. Rabinowski Department of Psychology Fortuna College, Fortuna, California Dear Professor Rabinowski, Your book changed my life. He tells a full-fledged conversion narrative: wayward boy saved by a chance encounter with brilliance. He describes how The Ape Inside Us awakened something in him, although the awakening has come, perhaps,
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variety of different ways that any three individuals could relate to each other:
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
And thus, the Harvard Study of Adult Development was born. The original cohort of 268 men included people from many walks of life, including some who went on to become well-known, such as John F. Kennedy and Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. Still, over the decades it was deemed too demographically insular—all Harvard men!—to give generalizable r
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The result was the monumental investigation of Adverse Childhood Experiences (now know as the ACE study), a collaboration between the CDC and Kaiser Permanente, with Robert Anda, MD, and Vincent Felitti, MD, as co–principal investigators.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
I figured Professor Haidt would speak about moral psychology, the theme of his book. But instead, on the day of the talk, Haidt discussed the purpose of a university. He urged the audience to consider whether the aim of higher education is to protect students or to equip them with the ability to seek truth, and he was clearly in favor of the latter
... See moreRob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
God, I pray first of all for the brothers and sisters in this jail, that you might strengthen them. I pray for the people who come to the Downtown Chapel to get something to eat and for the staff that provides for them; I pray for all the poor; I pray in thanksgiving for all the people who help me here and for Father Gary, who comes to see me. Plea
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“This is far as I go from my house because there’s so much negativity, drugs and violence,” said Williamson, while also lamenting the shift from police officers who walked a beat to ones he said are “being bullies instead of peace officers. We scared to talk to the cops today because we don’t know what state of mind they’re in. So we can get somebo
... See moreI had gone to the home of Marshall Duke, a psychologist at Emory University. Marshall and his colleague Robyn Fivush had been studying a phenomenon first noticed by Marshall’s wife, Sara. A teacher of students with special needs, Sara had observed that the children she worked with seemed better able to navigate their lives the more they knew about
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