Openness/ Intellect and the MBTI
As per the Big Five/FFM or the HEXACO model, Openness/Intellect appears to be an important personality dimension on which humans differ from each other. People high on this dimension are variously described as creative, imaginative, intellectual etc. We will be only focusing on this trait of the big five/HEXACO/FFM for the purpose of this post.
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MBTI is based on Jung’s theory: People may be Extroverted or Introverted, based on whether they find stimulation in the outer world preferable or find the inner world more a focus of their attention; and are...
Source: The Mouse Trap - December 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: personality Big Five personality traits MBTI Source Type: podcasts
Welcoming the One Millionth Reader
I know its a bit premature (the blog visit count on my blog is only about 99,8000 yet and it will take another 2-3 days to hit that milestone) but I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all the ~1 million readers who have thought it worthwhile to visit my blog at least once. You know who who you are: thanks to the Moms and the Grandmoms (those readers who were the only ones to visit it in the early days) and thanks also to the Siblings and Cousins (those blogs which encouraged, accepted and sometimes generated a healthy sibling competition of sorts in the early days?).
Maker Faire 2008, San Mateo – a life size ve...
Source: The Mouse Trap - December 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: Blog blogs personal blogging Source Type: podcasts
Coping with a Myeloma Diagnosis: Regaining Emotional and Psychological Control
The emotional and psychological battle from a myeloma diagnosis doesnt have to be fought alone. Tune in to hear Dr. Frits van Rhee and Kristen Carter discuss how to take control of mental health, whi...
Author: patientpower
Added: 12/01/2017 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - December 2, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
Role of the immunotherapy clinical nurse specialist
Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) play a key role for a cancer patient, in both performing clinical procedures, and offering psychological support and education. In this insightful interview, Nikki Hu...
Author: VJOncology
Added: 11/29/2017 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - November 29, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
Recognizing cancer nursing: a study across Europe
Specialist cancer nurses play a vital role in improving patient care, in both clinical and psychological contexts. In this interview, Daniel Kelly, PhD, from the School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff...
Author: VJOncology
Added: 11/29/2017 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - November 29, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
Big Love: Loving from a Place of Authenticity and Courage
When I was offered a chance to review ‘Big Love’ I was skeptical- The title seemed too touchy feely. My specialty is reading, and sometimes reviewing, psychology books so I was not even sure it would make good match. Also I had never heard of Scott Stabile and the PR blurb seemed too good to be true. However, as they say don’t judge a book by its cover. The book is a memoir cum advice from hard learned life lessons, and though its not a psychology based book, I could not find any contradictions with what psychology tells us about life and love. The need for vulnerability, courage and authenticity is a...
Source: The Mouse Trap - November 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: Book review authenticity Love Source Type: podcasts
How should we deal with the psychological burden of mRCC?
Cristiane Decat Bergerot, Phd answers the question How should we deal with the psychological burden of mRCC? at the 2017 Kidney Cancer Association symposium in Miami, FL. <br />
Author: kidneycancer
Added: 11/07/2017 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - November 8, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
Psychological therapies for preventing post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents
Children who are exposed to trauma can experience serious mental health problems and a variety of psychological therapies have been tried to prevent these outcomes. In October 2016, Donna Gillies from the Western Sydney Local Health District in Australia and colleagues brought the evidence together in a new Cochrane Review and she tells us more in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - October 18, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
How Do Myeloma Patients Avoid Worrying About Life Expectancy?
During this Patient Caf, patient advocate and mentor, Cynthia Chmielewski talks with several people living with myeloma to address the emotional and psychological needs of patients who are worried ab...
Author: patientpower
Added: 09/29/2017 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - September 30, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
The Four Kinds of Happiness
I have written previously about four major goals that one pursues in life: to recap they are Happiness, Success, Meaning and Morality. I have increasingly come to regard them as forming a stage wise progression- one moves from Happiness to Success to Meaning to Morality.
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Its important to clarify here that by Happiness I mean here pleasure or the Pleasant life, as contrasted with the Successful life, the Meaningful life or the Virtuous life. Refer the Life Orientation Profile by Paul TP Wong.
One can even say that initially as a child/ adolescent, one is primarily driven by pleasant life;...
Source: The Mouse Trap - September 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: happiness Life goals meaning Morality success Source Type: podcasts
The ABCD of Human Conundrum
The Human existence is fraught with many conundrums and dilemmas, the chief among them being how to live a good life and how to resolve the various contradictions in the service of that goal.
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To start with, I noted in an earlier post that even infants are able to reason about the world and themselves and others using four cognitive frameworks: they see self and others as animals (biological reasoning system), as agents (psychological reasoning system) , as separated individuals (sociomoral reasoning system) and finally as impartial observers obeying physical laws(physical r...
Source: The Mouse Trap - September 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: positive psychology existentialism Source Type: podcasts
Infants Reasoning About the World
The world may appear to be a ‘blooming, buzzing, confusion’ to infants, but within a few months infants are able to indulge in sophisticated cognition. They develop folk physical/astronomical theory, folk psychological theory, folk moral theory and folk biological theory, pretty rapidly.
This post is about those cognitive frameworks that infants develop and which more or less persist in adulthood.
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It had been my contention, that Autistic children are predominantly governed by physicalist explanations and frameworks, while those prone to psychosis indulged more in mentalisti...
Source: The Mouse Trap - September 7, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: cognition infants reasoning Source Type: podcasts
Research Summaries: Can Adolescents Learn Self-control? Delay of Gratification in the Development of Control over Risk Taking
Today’s research summary is based on a paper by Angela Duckworth and colleagues, and examines the nature of self-control as assessed by risk-taking, sensation-seeking, future time perspective and delay of gratification in US adolescents.
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Adolescents are known to indulge in risk taking activities like recreational drug use and various theories abound as to why adolescence is a particularly sensitive time.
As per one theory, there is a dopamine surge in reward centers of the brain during adolescence which leads to impulsive sensation seeking behavior. Traditionally, it is believed that th...
Source: The Mouse Trap - August 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: Research Summaries Angela Duckworth self-control Source Type: podcasts
Book Review: The Grit Guide for Teens
Every once in a while you stumble across a book that is very much relevant to your present circumstances and as if written with you in mind; The Girt Guide for Teens happens to be such a book that is proving really valuable to me in my current endeavor of championing positive education.
Some of you might know, that I am currently executing a long term positive education intervention in a school in Pune, which is structured around VIA character strengths. One of the strengths we are focusing on is Grit, the target audience is teenagers and this book has been God-send!
Along side Angela Duckowrth’s book, which I rev...
Source: The Mouse Trap - August 8, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: Book review grit Source Type: podcasts
