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Mindfulness – Four Caveats / Part One: Why Mindfulness?
In the world of health behavior research, mindfulness is definitely hot. New benefits are being discovered all the time. Mindfulness helps people cope with stress, by reducing their cortisol (stress hormones) and blood pressure and increasing their resilience, and in … Continue reading
Mini-update II
This is just a quick post to say I’m still working on those mindfulness posts. They’re getting rather, shall we say, “thorough,” in fact. Soon!
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Mini-update
It’s been nearly six months since I’ve posted here – I’ve been caught up in work and haven’t had time to develop the ideas I want to share here. Within the next week or two, though, I’m planning to write … Continue reading
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Doing uncomfortable things: Two approaches
Back when I was about to have my first baby, the hospital educator taught us about two philosophies of natural childbirth. In the Lamaze method, the mother-to-be focuses her attention on specific breathing patterns, along with pleasant memories or her … Continue reading
What Moral Foundation Theory gets wrong
Moral Foundations Theory is very popular with the media. Its creator, Jonathan Haidt, speaks to standing-room-only crowds around the nation. Our local, modest-sized public library owns ten (ten!) hardcover copies of his book, The Righteous Mind. In social psychology, it’s … Continue reading
The four elements of moralization: How things become “right” and “wrong”
Last time, I described my model of the cultural process that leads people to adopt new ideas about right and wrong. Before I can really tell the story properly, though, I need to invest a few paragraphs in the nitty-gritty … Continue reading
Moralization: How we, as a society, decide what’s right and what’s wrong
Q: What do marine biologist Rachel Carson, civil rights activist Malcolm X, evangelist Jerry Falwell, and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler all have in common? A. Each of them is, or was, an expert in moralization, the cultural process of changing … Continue reading
Coming soon!
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? In my earlier posts, I was mostly sharing my dissertation, which was about metanarratives, the kinds of stories we tell ourselves about our societies and the world we live in. Next up, I want … Continue reading
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The Meta-Narrator 