The story of this resilient autistic teenager and her indefatigably committed parents brought tears to my eyes. Thanks, Norsy, for the link. Your Thoughts?
“A Normal Child Locked in a Body She Has No Control Over”
April 17, 2013 By Daniel Fincke
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Hot, Passionate, Rational Sex
I posted to Facebook what I thought was a very interesting article about consent that argued it should be about asking a sexual partner whether they want something so that they have the chance to say “yes” rather than only pushing their boundaries until they say “no”. The idea was to look at consent as [...]
Filed Under: Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Love, Psychology, Sex Tagged With: Consent, Consent in Sex, Consent is Sexy, Dualisms, Enthusiastic Consent, Rape Culture, Religious Ethics, Sex-Positive Ethics, Sexual Ethics 11 Comments
Research Suggests Verbal Abuse Hinders Brain Development
Results of a study “revealed that those individuals who reported experiencing verbal abuse from their peers during middle school years had underdeveloped connections between the left and right sides of their brain through the massive bundle of connecting fibers called the corpus callosum. Psychological tests given to all subjects in the study showed that this same group of individuals had higher levels of anxiety, depression, anger, hostility, dissociation, and drug abuse than others in the study.”
I make the case we shouldn’t be perpetuating that damagin abuse (or ruled by our own trauma from experiencing it) as adults. We need to conscientiously work to eradicate verbal harassment, including name-calling, from both children’s and adults’ lives.
How I Relate To People Socially
Meditations on my personal experience with introversion, extroversion, friendship, interpersonal intimacy, small groups, large groups, social anxiety, social media, and public speaking.
Filed Under: Personal, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Psychology Tagged With: Extroversion, Friendship, Introversion 13 Comments
On Unintentionally Intimidating People
While most of us rightly want to be exceptional in some way or another, we often feel a lot of social and moral pressure not to think of ourselves as generally better than others. And, even more urgently, we feel pressure not to convey to others that we think ourselves superior and not to be [...]
Filed Under: Applied Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Ethics, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Intellectual Virtues, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology, Psychology, Social Psychology, Social Psychology, Virtues, Virtues Tagged With: False Modesty, Graciousness, Intimidating People, Modesty, Self-Deprecation, Sensitivity, Virtues 10 Comments
How To Make God Die A Little More
Scientific American summarizes studies which locate people’s distrust of atheists in their fears that atheists are more likely to act deviously in secret because they fear no god is watching them. We have talked about such research before. Then this article explores other research which gives indications about how to combat this problem: When we know [...]
A Cool Optical Effect
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Baby Morality
Yale psychologist and author of How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like, Paul Bloom discusses the evidence that certain behaviors, dispositions, and feelings on which morality is built are innate in us and present already in babies: Relatedly, Alison Gopnik’s The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About [...]
Filed Under: Ethics, Ethics, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Psychology, Psychology Tagged With: Babies, babies and morality, Compassion 2 Comments
MRI's Show Internet Can Be Addictive Like Cocaine
Over LoggingGet More: SOUTHPARKmore… That full, brilliant South Park episode is here. Now the science: Internet addiction has for the first time been linked with changes in the brain similar to those seen in people addicted to alcohol, cocaine and cannabis. In a groundbreaking study, researchers used MRI scanners to reveal abnormalities in the brains [...]
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Pascal Boyer on Imaginary Friends and Supernatural Agents
Sorry for the hiccup as the site was down, but now that we’re back up, the blogathon goes on! Onward to 9:00am! Reading Pascal Boyer’s frequently illuminating Religion Explained last fall, the single most interesting part for me was his discussion of imaginary friends. According to my mom I had countless imaginary friends as a [...]
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