Word: mentalism
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...same amount--$50, say--and drive as far as I can on what it buys me, even if it's not as far as yesterday. That gambit works well for a week or two, I find, but then it gradually stops working because of the same sort of sloppy mental accounting that prompts me twice a year to cancel my HBO subscription while simultaneously buying more cell-phone minutes...
...this summer in such uncharted territory,” wrote Heuer, a Cabot House philosophy concentrator. Jillian N. London ’07, a philosophy concentrator in Adams House, will spend the summer in London examining the political and ethical implications of providing care to individuals who suffer from mental disorders or drug abuse without their permission. “To get people into rehab programs is really difficult if they have drug abuse problems,” she said. “I’ve always sort of wondered, is that right? Should we be doing more...
...Americans seem to think so: according to a 2002 Public Agenda poll, 57% of parents acknowledge spanking their kids. Psychologists and other academics are similarly divided, with each camp accusing the other of twisting data to suit an agenda. Opponents say corporal punishment can lead to aggression, poor mental health, even sadomasochistic tendencies and criminal behavior. Sally Moon, 42, a stay-at-home mother in Portland, Maine, agrees. Even when her daughter Teagan, 2, bites, Moon puts her in time-out and reasons with her. Says Moon: "I strongly believe children shouldn't be hit for any reason...
Video games are an unusual medium in that they carry a heavy stigma among nongamers. Not everybody likes ballet, but most nonballet fans don't accuse ballet of leading to violent crime and mental backwardness. Video games aren't so lucky. There's a sharp divide between gamers and nongamers, and the result is a market that, while large and devoted--last year video-game software and hardware brought in $27 billion--is also deeply stagnant. Its borders are sharply defined, and they're not expanding...
...those grim days between the accident and contact with rescuers, "these men, I suspect, would have confided in each other things they'd never previously told anyone . . . that's what the fear of death does," says Beverley Raphael, who heads a University of Western Sydney unit specializing in mental health issues arising from disasters. And as married men and fathers of three, Webb and Russell would have been sustained, Raphael suspects, by what she calls "attachment ideation"-the instinct, under stress, to dwell on loved ones and a determination to see them again...