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Health experts disagree. "If it's right there, you're more likely to buy it," says psychologist Lisa Altshuler, director of the Kids Weight-Down Program at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. "If you have to walk across the street, you'll be less likely to bother...
...part of the brain that ordinarily processes shapes. They tend to use the visual centers in the back of the brain for tasks usually handled by the prefrontal cortex. They often look at the mouth instead of the eyes of someone who is speaking. Their focus, says psychologist Ami Klin of Yale's Child Study Center, is "not on the social allegiances - for example, the longing gaze of a mother - but physical allegiances - a mouth that moves...
...former “Positive Psychology” student, Sepah said this fit with Ben-Shahar’s references to University of Michigan psychologist Barbara L. Fredrickson’s research that positive emotions strengthen personal resources, increasing chances of success...
...capture bad behavior. How, he asks, is he supposed to snort a line in front of a bunch of strangers if they’re all taking pictures of him? Ah, the tribulations of fame. These lyrics, straight off tabloid front-pages, are delivered to the receptionist, the psychologist, the masseuse and the group therapist at the resort-like clinic—he skips the group hug to let us know that “when you’re a famous boy, it gets really easy to get girls”—and finally to the friend...
...Beckstead, a clinical psychologist, spoke of his research on the movement, saying that as a whole, it is “unethical and destructive.” Author and gay-rights activist Wayne Besen condemned the “ex-gay ministries” in even harsher terms, saying that they were scams supported by the right-wing to thwart the successes of the gay rights movement...