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...women when it comes to domestic violence. What do you make of this seductive empathy for abusive men? The bottom line is simple. No one ever has the right to hit you. Nobody. What gets murky is that our culture is filled with the mythology that women are taught to nurture men, accommodate their weaknesses, and overlook their failures - that women are much more intuitive emotionally, so they should help men unearth their childhood traumas. I think a lot of that is why I get sucked into this savior fantasy. I thought it was my role as a woman...
According to Economics Department Chair James H. Stock, only the two visiting professors whose contracts were set before the economic crisis began will remain at Harvard next year. Visiting professors taught a dozen undergraduate and graduate courses this semester...
Junior seminars are non-required courses “designed to introduce students to research in a particular field of economics,” according to the course catalogue. They are the only small, undergraduate courses in Economics taught by tenured and assistant faculty members...
...people would define optimism as being eternally hopeful, endlessly happy, with a glass that's perpetually half full. But that's exactly the kind of deluded cheerfulness that positive psychologists wouldn't recommend. "Healthy optimism means being in touch with reality," says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor who taught the university's most popular course, Positive Psychology, from 2002 to 2008. "It certainly doesn't mean being Pollyannaish and thinking everything is great and wonderful...
...then reading it aloud to someone - were less likely to visit the student health center for illnesses during the next four years than their similarly pessimistic peers who weren't tutored in positive thinking. And a larger study of more than 3,000 middle-school students who are being taught resilience techniques is under way in England. "It's the largest-scale validation that optimism can be taught," says Seligman, who developed the techniques used in the study...