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...shots. Entering the weekend shooting .569 from the floor, Martin connected on 12 of his 18 attempts. “Our defense both nights, and especially tonight, was very soft near the rim area,” Sullivan said. “When we get back to trying to correct what we’ve got to work on for the next two weeks, one of them is getting tougher around the basket.”Yale’s perimeter players, chiefly point guard Eric Flato, were able to continually penetrate past Harvard’s initial line...
...think in general [Summers] was correct to suggest what he did,” Mansfield said...
...guess it’s not really that big a story,” said Molly Larkin, a junior at Penn who does not know Warner personally. “I think it’s pretty much accepted that it’s not correct. All his friends were like, ‘He was with us the whole night...
...Hayes is correct, the way most of us think about psychology is wrong. In the years since Hayes suffered his first panic attacks, an approach called cognitive therapy has become the gold-standard treatment (with or without supplementary drugs) for a wide range of mental illnesses, from depression to post-traumatic stress disorder. And although a good cognitive therapist would never advise a panic patient merely to try to will away his anxiety, the main long-term strategy of cognitive therapy is to attack and ultimately change negative thoughts and beliefs rather than accept them. "I always screw...
...Hayes and other third wavers say trying to correct negative thoughts can, paradoxically, intensify them, in the same way that a dieter who keeps telling himself "I really don't want the pizza" ends up obsessing about ... pizza. Rather, Hayes and the roughly 12,000 students and professionals who have been trained in his formal psychotherapy, which is called acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), say we should acknowledge that negative thoughts recur throughout life. Instead of challenging them, Hayes says, we should concentrate on identifying and committing to our values. Once we become willing to feel negative emotions, he argues...