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The Role of Religion in American Society: Past, Present, and the Founders' Vision
Author and independent scholar Matthew Stewart discusses the role religion plays in American society, and how religious practice gibes with the ideals of the Founding Fathers.
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Anxiety
Teach your kids about their feelings and emotions with this lesson on anxiety and fear anxiety video.
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Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Your Mental Health?
Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Your Mental Health?
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Emotions For Kids: Naming and Responding
This is a social emotional video to help kids identify various emotions, identify emotions in themselves, and it gives kids tools on responding to those emotions.
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Evaluating Emotions
Cognitive scientist Lisa Feldman Barrett (Northeastern) describes how her quest to understand emotions led her, eventually, to the current frontiers of neuroscience.
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Emotional Confusion
Social psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett, Northeastern University, describes how experimental findings that indicated that subjects couldn’t accurately distinguish between different emotions led her on a quest to find objective markers...
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The Need To Belong
Roy Baumeister, University of Queensland, describes how, for the longest time social psychologists only paid lip service to the social world, and that his groundbreaking work The Need To Belong was motivated by an awareness that much of...
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The Origins of "The Need To Belong"
Roy Baumeister (Queensland) reflects upon what led him to develop his influential work on “The Need to Belong”, while giving penetrating insights on the life and work of a social psychologist.
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What social distancing does to your mental health (and what to do about it)
These are anxious times given the recent coronavirus outbreak. And if that wasn't stressful enough, now we have to add social distancing on top of it. If you're anything like me, you've taken your responsibility to flatten the curve...
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This Is Your Brain On Shrooms
Psychedelics like magic mushrooms have huge effects on the brain. But what are they doing up there? More than 180 species of "magic mushrooms" produce the psychoactive compound psilocybin. And ingesting it triggers some pretty trippy...
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The dubious claims of brain training (and what actually works)
Brain training has gotten a bad rep for saying they prevent Alzheimer’s disease or boost you to 200 IQ. But does that mean you should uninstall all your apps? Well, turns out that not all brain training is created equal. Find out what...
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How to stop feeling like a fraud
You don't belong here. They're onto you. Everybody is going to find out the truth. It's only a matter of time. If you've ever had dark thoughts like these, you've likely fallen victim to Impostor Syndrome: a strange psychological...
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How to cope with your awful family at the holidays
The holidays are supposed to be the best time of the year. But let’s face it, family can be stressful. They don’t just know how to push your buttons, they installed them there in the first place! But that doesn’t mean your family...
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How COVID-19 Affects The Brain
A lot of the information we hear about COVID-19 surrounds how the virus impacts your lungs or how the pandemic has ravaged society due to quarantine. But what about your brain? Might coronavirus have an effect there, too? Come along with...
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Are Rage Rooms a healthy way to release anger?
Anger is a basic human emotion. We all feel it at one point or another. But what do you do when you get REAL angry? For many of us, we end up expressing that anger by yelling, slamming a door, or even hitting something...or someone. But...
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Why nature is good for your mental health
Back in the day, doctors would send patients with anxiety and depression into the mountains because the fresh air would do them good. Though they did not have the research to back it up, they knew that nature was good for our mental...
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I have insomnia. This neurotech says it can cure me.
Would you shock your brain to cure your insomnia? How about your depression or anxiety? What if you could do it in the comfort of your own home with a hand-held device? That’s what cranial electrotherapy stimulation, or CES, proposes to...
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How the war on drugs BLOCKS life-saving treatment
For a long time, American society has generally accepted the system in place that has protected us from the detrimental effects of scheduled drugs. But what if the "most dangerous drugs", Schedule 1 controlled substances, could actually...
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Can a vibrating bracelet cure your depression?
What if you could put on a bracelet, no larger than a watch, and feel better? That's exactly what Apollo Neuro claims their mood-altering wearable neurotech can do. It seems too good to be true for a single vibrating device to decrease...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
3 Tips to Overcome Public Speaking Anxiety
Here are 3 Tips to Overcome Your Public Speaking Anxiety. Public speaking can be a pivotal career accelerator but nerves often prevent many people from gaining the confidence they need to do it.
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Communication Professor Reacts to David Blaine's Public Speaking Anxiety
Communication Professor Reacts to David Blaine's Public Speaking Anxiety. Are celebrity speakers just like you? How did Blaine get over his fear of public speaking?
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Pressurized Part 2
Feeling overwhelmed by stress? Don't worry, Kevin at Can Do U has got you covered with an effective grounding exercise. In this enlightening video, Kevin explains how the 5-4-3-2-1 Technique can help you regain control when stress and...
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Pressurized Part 1
Join Kevin at Can Do U as he unveils a powerful stress management technique in this insightful video. Discover the wonders of Box Breathing, a technique used by professional athletes and Navy Seals to combat stress and anxiety. Kevin...
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Mental Health Matters- 7th Grade Part 3
In this conclusive part of the "Mental Health Matters Level Two" series, we emphasize the existence and importance of helpers in situations of crisis or difficulty. Drawing on historical examples like Hurricane Katrina, we illustrate how...