One needn’t ruminate more than one wants or need to, suggests this study: “The Cessation of Rumination Through Self-Affirmation,” Sander L. Koole, Karianne Smeets, Ad van Knippenberg, and Ap Dijksterhuis, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1999, Vol. 77, No. 1, 111-25. The authors affirm that they are at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Think, Think Again, About Think, Thinking
Ponder, if you will, the implications of this study: “Rethinking Rumination,” Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Blair E. Wisco, and Sonja Lyubomirsky [pictured here], Perspectives on Psychological Science, vol 3, no. 5, 2008, pp. 400-424. The authors are at Yale University and University of California, Riverside.
A metaphor for fMRI studies of thought?
A new study contains a poetical phrase that maybe, just maybe, is a metaphor for the severe difficulty and beauty of a great scientific quest: learning how the heck the brain manages to think. Many brain scientists use a complex technology called “fMRI” (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) to make rough pictures of activity (many sorts of […]
Childish: 2nd-hand looks at brain activity
Some brain scientists use their brains to explain how they think other people’s brains are used. They also use (in addition to their brains) fMRI [functional magnetic resonance imaging], a technique in which complex equipment measures some of the things that happen inside a brain while a person is using that brain. (NOTE: the technique has […]