Word: psyching
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...best class they’ve taken at Harvard,” says Austin F. Blackmon ’07, who is currently enrolled in both of Ben-Shahar’s courses. “I have not heard a single person give [Positive Psych] a recommendation below ‘amazing...
...Four years later at Salt Lake City, published rumors had Team U.S.A.'s players stomping on the maple-leaf flag on their locker-room floor in a psych-up ceremony. "There was no validity" to the story, Granato says. "I was highly offended because as captain, I just wouldn't allow that to happen." But the damage had been done. The Canadians were frothing. And during the gold-medal final, U.S. referee Stacey Livingston dealt a lopsided number of penalties to Canada, which added to their fury. "The refereeing was atrocious," recalls Canadian captain Cassie Campbell. "But we expected...
Want to escape the bad effects of an unhappy childhood this year? The controversial bestselling author and radio host says that if you're wearing a scarlet "V" for victim on your chest, you'll never outrun the past. "Unfortunately, much of the popular therapeutic view and pop psych mentality has functioned," says Schlessinger, "to keep people in self-pitying, victim mode mentality, robbing them of optimism, confidence, hope, growth and change." Instead, urges the author, strive to be a victor...
Ansel Witthaus ’06 may be best known as the (in)famous Bacchus from Lowell Bacchanalia. He moonlights as a Lowell Psych concentrator from Washington, MO. We sat him down, set his iPod on shuffle and recorded his reactions. 1. Apocalyptica—“Sanitarium (Welcome Home)” This group is awesome! They play metal on four cellos. I saw them in concert earlier this semester and they are even better live. They started out covering Metallica, and those covers are their best. 2. Enya—“Wild Child?...
STARTING OVER SYNDICATED, Check Local Listings This undersung daytimeshow takes elements of reality TV and talk shows and improves on both. Here, six women with problems from financial dependence to emotional aloofness spend weeks under one roof in the care of counselors. The show's pop-psych devices can be bizarre--one woman and her "life coach" role-play a dialogue with her absentee dad using sock puppets--but the results are genuinely moving. It's refreshing to see a reality show about a group of women--some in their 40s--who aren't babes looking...