Word: reactionism
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...reaction from my ex was worse. She managed to delete the notification from her Facebook wall in - I timed this - less than a minute. She told me later, amid much profanity, that there was "No way" she'd have the flowers delivered, because she didn't want to explain they were from her "weirdo ex-boyfriend." RealGifts assures me refunds are possible...
...Chose Yale” in the middle of the info session? Of course you do. Well, Ben McGrath has written a piece in the “Talk of the Town” section of this week’s New Yorker gauging the reaction from some of Yale’s more conservative, old guard alumni. Let’s just say that the reviews aren’t glowing...
...Contain the definition of a mental illness within sensible borders. A major problem with earlier versions was mission creep: In 1980, the APA published DSM-III, which radically expanded what clinicians could define as disordered. One example: depression. The pre-1980 definition had described "depressive neurosis" as "an excessive reaction of depression due to an internal conflict or to an identifiable event such as the loss of a love object." The much longer 1980 definition (which carried on into DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR, with slight modifications) omitted the requirement that symptoms be "excessive" in proportion to cause...
Psychology Professor Daniel T. Gilbert introduced the idea of why global warming has not galvanized a stronger reaction...
People who fall into homelessness say it feels like a spiral. A layoff, a medical emergency or a domestic quarrel sets off a chain reaction of bad luck. And the risk of falling into the economic abyss has increased, even in better times. Writing before the housing bubble burst and Wall Street collapsed, Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker showed that the big difference between 30 years ago and today is the dramatic growth in income volatility. American family incomes now rise and fall much more sharply from year to year, and this is happening at the same time that public...