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Rethinking The Five Stages Of Grief
Hartford Courant: More than 40 years after psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross developed her theory on the five stages of grief, bereavement experts are questioning how well her theories have held up. “It just doesn’t work anymore,”
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Careful whom you mimic
The Globe and Mail: Careful whom you mimic “Have you ever crossed your arms to match a friend’s stance or leaned in a little closer as your date did the same thing? If so, you’ve
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Hypnosis as health care quietly gains ground
MSNBC: In 1987, Marilyn Bellezzo was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a disorder that was, for her, debilitating. “I was housebound,” Bellezzo said. She spent hours curled up on the bathroom floor, suffering from
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When Mimicking Reflects Badly On You
The Huffington Post: Have you ever crossed your arms to match a friend’s stance or leaned in a little closer as your date did the same thing? If so, you’ve experienced mirroring. Whether you realize
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What use of pronouns reveals about personality
The Boston Globe: The way in which we use pronouns like I, you, or him — or choose not to use them — reveals quite a bit about our personalities but not necessarily in the
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The Book Bench
The New Yorker: In the News: Out on a Limn, Pronoun Psychology The composer Philip Glass will publish a memoir with Norton. Remember the uproar over the critic Michiko Kakutani’s (over)use of the word “limn”?