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How many Personality Disorders needed to change a lightbulb?

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:46:02 GMT

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How many Narcissistic P.D. does to take to change a lightbulb?

Just one. To hold the lightbulb but he has to wait for the whole world to

revolve around him.

How many Passive Aggressive P.D. does to take to change a lightbulb?

Oops.I can't believe I broke the last one. I guess you'll have to sit in

the dark.

How many Dependent P.D. does to take to change a lightbulb?

None, he's still clinging to the old lightbulb.

How many Freudians psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb?

Two. One to change the bulb and one to hold the penis... I mean ladder!

How many Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) patients does

it take to change a lightbulb ?

They can't: Once the lightbulb goes out, all they can do is sit there and cry.

How many paranoids does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Hey! are you following me?

Tags: funny, psychology, personality disorders, psychiatrist, humor

"What Attracts the Psychopath?"

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:45:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: continues: To test the hypothesis, the researchers with Professor Stephen Porter’s Forensic Psychology Lab at Dalhousie showed slides of different faces to a sample of young men. The faces were either happy or sad, male or female, and described as being in either a high- or low-paying job.

Mr. Wilson found men who scored high on a psychopathic personality questionnaire (a series of 187 questions probing emotional reactions and impulsivity) possessed the unusual ability to recall sad females in low-paying jobs. At the same time, they also had an unusual inability to recall females who were happy or in high-paying jobs, nor were they good at putting names to faces.

“What we concluded is that psychopathy is associated with a kind of ‘predatory memory,’” says Mr. Wilson, 22, from Moncton, N.B. “They may use this to actively select their victims.”

He’s interested in doing further research with diagnosed offenders in the criminal population.

Mr. Wilson’s interest in psychopaths w

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What Attracts the Psychopath?

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A new study by Dalhousie researchers suggests psychopaths are deeply attuned to vulnerable people.

Newswise — How do psychopaths find their victims? A new study by Dalhousie researchers suggests they are deeply attuned to vulnerable people.

“It’s like what you’d see on Animal Planet—the lion goes after the most vulnerable, the one they have the best chance of getting,” says Kevin Wilson, a fourth-year science student who was the lead researcher on the paper, “A pawn by any other name? Social information processing as a function of psychopathic traits,” published in the Journal of Research in Personality.

“This type of aggression is referred to as predatory … it’s a perceptual system geared to getting the easiest prey.”

Howard F. Ahmanson Jr. will make you obey his god

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:23:27 GMT

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Who is funding California's Prop 8, the country's most controversial ballot measure? The Mormons' donations are well known, and are a source of outrage among the church's more moderate elements. But little attention has been focused on two of the proposition's biggest individual donors: Elsa Broekhuizen, the mother of Blackwater founder Erik Prince, and Howard F. Ahmanson Jr., the reclusive theocratic millionaire who inherited $300 million from his philanthropist father at age 18.

As I wrote,

few Americans have heard of Ahmanson -- and that's the way he likes it. His extreme politics and eccentric personality reveal the draconian underside of a ballot measure billed by its proponents as "pro-family."

During a 1985 interview with the Orange County Register, Ahmanson summarized his political agenda: "My goal is the total integration of biblical law into our lives."

Personality Type Part 2

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:35:22 GMT

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Clip Source: typelogic.com

INFJs have a knack for fluency in language and facility in communication. In addition, nonverbal sensitivity enables the INFJ to know and be known by others intimately.

Writing, counseling, public service and even politics are areas where INFJs frequently find their niche

Introverted iNtuition

Introverted intuitives, INFJs enjoy a greater clarity of perception of inner, unconscious processes than all but their INTJ cousins. Just as SP types commune with the object and "live in the here and now" of the physical world, INFJs readily grasp the hidden psychological stimuli behind the more observable dynamics of behavior and affect. Their amazing ability to deduce the inner workings of the mind, will and emotions of others gives INFJs their reputation as prophets and seers. Unlike the confining, routinizing nature of introverted sensing, introverted intuition frees this type to act insightfully and spontaneously as unique solutions arise on an event by event basis.

Personality Type Part 4

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:39:21 GMT

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Extraverted Sensing

INFJs are twice blessed with clarity of vision, both internal and external. Just as they possess inner vision which is drawn to the forms of the unconscious, they also have external sensing perception which readily takes hold of worldly objects. Sensing, however, is the weakest of the INFJ's arsenal and the most vulnerable. INFJs, like their fellow intuitives, may be so absorbed in intuitive perceiving that they become oblivious to physical reality. The INFJ under stress may fall prey to various forms of immediate gratification. Awareness of extraverted sensing is probably the source of the "SP wannabe" side of INFJs. Many yearn to live spontaneously; it's not uncommon for INFJ actors to take on an SP (often ESTP) role.

Famous INFJs:

Nathan, prophet of Israel
Aristophanes
Chaucer
Goethe
Robert Burns, Scottish poet

U.S. Presidents:

Martin Van Buren

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter

Personality Type Part 3

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:37:06 GMT

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Extraverted Feeling

Extraverted feeling, the auxiliary deciding function, expresses a range of emotion and opinions of, for and about people. INFJs, like many other FJ types, find themselves caught between the desire to express their wealth of feelings and moral conclusions about the actions and attitudes of others, and the awareness of the consequences of unbridled candor. Some vent the attending emotions in private, to trusted allies. Such confidants are chosen with care, for INFJs are well aware of the treachery that can reside in the hearts of mortals. This particular combination of introverted intuition and extraverted feeling provides INFJs with the raw material from which perceptive counselors are shaped.

Personality Type Part 1

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:31:12 GMT

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Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging

Beneath the quiet exterior, INFJs hold deep convictions about the weightier matters of life. Those who are activists -- INFJs gravitate toward such a role -- are there for the cause, not for personal glory or political power.

INFJs are champions of the oppressed and downtrodden. They often are found in the wake of an emergency, rescuing those who are in acute distress. INFJs may fantasize about getting revenge on those who victimize the defenseless. The concept of 'poetic justice' is appealing to the INFJ.

"There's something rotten in Denmark." Accurately suspicious about others' motives, INFJs are not easily led. These are the people that you can rarely fool any of the time. Though affable and sympathetic to most, INFJs are selective about their friends. Such a friendship is a symbiotic bond that transcends mere words.

Conscientious people live longer

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:09:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Conscientiousness, said Friedman in a news release, "seems to be as important as most commonly assessed medical risk factors, few of which are psychological ... Not only do conscientious individuals have better health habits and less risk-taking, but they also travel life pathways toward healthier psychosocial environments -- such as more stable jobs and marriages -- and may even have a biological predisposition toward good health."

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Conscientious people live longer

Most of the factors related to longevity are physical: the presence of disease, body weight, smoking or drinking habits, and on and on. But having a personality trait known as conscientiousness seems to matter, too, according to a new study.

The research, conducted at UC Riverside, analyzed data from 20 studies on conscientiousness-related traits and longevity. The studies involved more than 8,900 people in the United States, Germany, Norway, Japan and Sweden. Psychology professor Howard S. Friedman found highly conscientious people live two to four years longer, are less likely to smoke or drink to excess and live more stable and less stressful lives. He also examined several facets of conscientiousness, such as being organized, efficient, responsible, self-controlled, disciplined, achievement-oriented, persistent, industrious and socially responsible. He found that achievement and having an orderly life were the strongest facets linked to longevity.

How Personalities Evolved

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:04:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Game theory’ is used to predict the behaviour of individuals when making choices that depend on the choices of others. First developed as a tool for understanding economic behaviour, game theory is increasingly used in many diverse fields, ranging from biology and psychology to sociology and philosophy.

Using a mathematical model developed by Professor John McNamara the team adapted the theory to allow individuals playing the ‘game’ to have some variation in their personalities to start with, and to monitor each other’s cooperative tendencies as the game was being played."

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Playing A Game Shows How Personalities Evolved

Why do some of us always do the right thing while others only seem to be out for themselves?

new explanation as to why such a wide range of personality traits has evolved in humans and other social species.

Dr Sasha Dall

explains: “Our model showed a ‘positive feedback’ loop in which variation encourages social awareness, which favours greater personality divergence, maintaining the need for social awareness. In other words, because people operate in such different ways, we need information to decide whether or not trust to them. This encourages a really diverse range of responses which, in turn, makes social awareness all the more important.”

Although the model focuses on individuals, the findings have implications for understanding whole societies. They are also significant because they offer an explanation as to why variation has evolved in human beings and other social specie

tea for the soul

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:27:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: i always knew it !

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A hot cuppa helps melt hearts, researchers find

It may seem unlikely, but simply clutching a warm cup of coffee can bring on a flood of warm feelings, U.S. researchers said on Thursday in a finding that suggests a strong link between physical and emotional warmth.

"Physical warmth can make us see others as warmer people, but also cause us to be warmer -- more generous and trusting -- as well,"

They asked people to briefly hold a hot or iced coffee. Then they were given a packet of information about another person and asked to assess his or her personality traits.

Those who had held the warm cup of coffee were far more likely to assign "warmth" as a personality trait than those who held the icy beverage.

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Taking a warm bath. Drinking a cup of tea or coffee. Chicken soup. It's not haphazard that we have a preference for these types of experiences

The science of romantic chemistry

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:28:19 GMT

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Why does love hit you so hard? And why does one handsome stranger make your heart pound while another leaves you cold? Love has always been a mystery. But researchers now have some explanations -- many based on sophisticated brain-scanning techniques -- that shed light on how it works. Here, questions about love, partially demystified.

What rules attraction?

In general, you gravitate toward people like you.

Experts think this happens because perceived equality contributes to a stable union.

once you get past the bone structure and bank account and into personality attributes, opposites often attract.

Is love blind?

Not exactly, but once you're hooked, your vision gets cloudy.

Can love be addictive?

Love plays havoc with your body chemistry, causing you to act like an addict bent on scoring her next fix. Studies have found, for instance, that serotonin levels decrease by up to 40 percent in the newly smitten, causing some to show signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder

What keeps people together?

Tags: neuroscience, chemistry, love, behavior

Do we get wiser with age?

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:49:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Is age a prerequisite for wisdom, though? We all know a few elderly people who lack wisdom, while we may know few young people that have wisdom in spades. People certainly aren't always at peak brainpower in old age; after all, when wrinkles begin appearing on the face, it usually means that wrinkles have started disappearing on the brain. The brain shrinks slightly with age, and aging leads to a normal decline in cognitive function that may eventually bloom into dementias such as Alzheimer's disease".

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Do we really get wiser with age?

Do wrinkles on the face tell you anything about wrinkles on the brain? It's commonly believed that that grandpa has more knowledge than his young whippersnapper of a grandkid. Does the theory hold up?

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While philosophers and religious traditions have provided readings on the nature of wisdom for centuries, the concept didn't become a subject of scientific study until 1950. That's when psychoanalyst Erik Erikson created an eight-stage theory of the human life cycle. In each stage, a person faces an internal struggle that develops different aspects of personality.

For example, an infant's struggle is the battle between trust and mistrust; when infants feel they can trust those around them, they develop a sense of hope

last stage, old age, people grapple with the balance between their personal sense of integrity and defeat in the face of death and physical disintegration. If integrity wins out, then the result, according to Erikson, is wisdom.

How social awareness develops

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:14:25 GMT

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Using a mathematical model developed by Professor John McNamara from the University of Bristol, the team adapted the theory to allow individuals playing the ‘game’ to have some variation in their personalities to start with, and to monitor each other’s cooperative tendencies as the game was being played.

McNamara described what happened using this new variation of the game: “What we found is that watching each other’s behaviour produced individuals who were more socially aware, which in turn exaggerated the personality traits of both players. Some became more cooperative – because they became aware of the impact their decisions were making on their reputations – while others became less cooperative and exploited trusting individuals for personal gain.”

In evolutionary terms, this trend is self-perpetuating: variation begets more variation, increasing the gap between those who trusted and co-operated, and those that exploited trusting individuals.

Tags: social awareness, personality

The woman I would marry

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:27:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Who wouldn't want a wife like that?

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Sitting in the bar George asked Johnny, 40, "How come you are not married?"

Johnny: "I haven't found the right woman yet"

George: "So what are you looking for?"

Johnny: "Oh she's got to be real pretty, a good cook 'n house keeper, - well and she's got to know how to handle money, - a really nice and pleasant personality is a must, - and money, she's got to have money, - and a home, a nice big house, is what she has to have."

George: "A woman like that would be crazy to marry YOU"

Johnny: "Oh it's okay, if she is crazy"

Tags: jokes, humor, marriage jokes, men jokes

Anandmurti Gurumaa

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:50:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The word Anandmurti literally means, ‘an embodiment of divine bliss’ and Gurumaa means ‘master mother’. Anandmurti Gurumaa, true to her name, is a master, a mother, and an embodiment of bliss.

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Anandmurti Gurumaa

The word Anandmurti literally means, ‘an embodiment of divine bliss’ and Gurumaa means ‘master mother’. Anandmurti Gurumaa, true to her name, is a master, a mother, and an embodiment of bliss. A very exquisite confluence of sheer love and sharp intelligence, Gurumaa is a true crusader, a mystic, a poet at heart with a scientific aptitude by intellect, and a strong personality.

Tags: gurumaa, meditation, mystic master