Kelly McGonigal

Tuesday, November 1 2011

The Painful Truth

It’s not too often that my first response to pain is, “Fantastic!”

But when I collapsed to the ground after banging my ankle on a hardwood meditation bench, I knew this was an opportunity for a scientific experiment. I had spent the last few days preparing a talk on the neuroscience of meditation. More specifically, how meditators process pain differently than non-meditators.

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Thursday, October 6 2011

Being good licenses us to be bad

Do you have a moral set-point? New research sheds light on why we’re instinctively drawn to both redemption and temptation.

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posted by Kelly McGonigal, 8:44 am
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Monday, August 22 2011

End the suffering of binge eating—one breath at a time

Binge eating feels like the ultimate loss of control. Those who suffer from it often worry that their self-destructive relationship with food will define their lives forever. However, a recent study identifies a path to healing: yoga.

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Wednesday, August 3 2011

Violent Video Games Inhibit the Compassion Instinct

A study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology provides more evidence that violent video games desensitize players to violence, and makes them more violent in real life. This is not the first study to report such an effect; the evidence has been steadily accumulating over the last decade. But this study is worth looking at because it accidentally reveals both the immediate and long-term consequences of play.

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Tuesday, July 12 2011

The Power of Self-Compassion

As I write this, the number one most emailed article on the New York Times is a blog post by Tara Parker-Pope  on the importance of self-compassion for making a change such as losing weight or quitting smoking.

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