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The psychedelic drug in magic mushrooms may have lasting medical and spiritual benefits, according to new research from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The mushroom-derived hallucinogen, called psilocybin, is known to trigger transformative spiritual states, but at high doses it can also result in “bad trips” marked by terror and panic. The trick is to […]
September 26, 2013
Stuck solving a problem? Seek the obscure, says Tony McCaffrey, a psychology PhD from the University of Massachusetts. “There’s a classic obstacle to innovation called ‘functional fixedness,’ which is the tendency to fixate on the common use of an object or its parts. It hinders people from solving problems.” McCaffrey has developed a systematic way […]
September 24, 2013
Lucid dreaming is when you experience full consciousness while dreaming. You know that you are in a dream and you discover that you can do absolutely anything you like in it. What generally causes you to become conscious without waking up is when you notice something so incongruous that you would never see in real […]
August 22, 2013
I’d like to examine the concept of freedom in a somewhat unusual way — from the viewpoint of motivational psychology. The starting point is to realize that there are basically four ways of influencing behavior: reward, punishment, restraint, and compulsion. Reward means offering the subject something good for performing an action. Punishment means threatening the […]
July 25, 2013
Clever ways to get around some of life’s most persistent problems. via 9 Things That Will Change and Improve Your Life Forever – Cheezburger.
December 6, 2012
Procrastination is often listed as one of the top things most of us would like to change about ourselves. We all sometimes put things off for later when we should do them today, but it can become a serious problem when it systematically affects our performance and our lives. Procrastination itself isn’t the problem, it’s […]
September 13, 2012
My first thought was heavy metal and luxury watches don’t seem to go together at all, but this is a fascinating interview I came across online about a heavy metal guitarist who became one of the best watchmakers in the world. In the interview he speaks about pursuing your passion and excelling at what you […]
August 14, 2012
(Related: Maslow’s Hierarchy: The Physiological Needs 1 – Air and Water) We have a lot of needs. It’s often hard to understand how they relate and where they fall in terms of priority. Understanding our needs we can answer questions like: How does a drug addict rationalize their need for a drug at the expense […]
August 9, 2012
Human curiosity is a powerful motivator. It pushes us to look and go farther then we previously thought possible. After a few millennia of looking at the sky and wondering what it’s like up there so far away, we’re now able to build machines that give us a front row seat. The Mars rover Curiosity […]
July 24, 2012
Imagine it’s 1945. There are no computers, smartphones or Internet. All you have are the mountain of books and papers that fill libraries from universities and cities all around the world and the technology of the day. How would you create a system to link and cross reference all of those things? How could you […]
Hanes Psychology 
October 13, 2013
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