January 2012
16 posts
Is Empathy In Our Genes? (CNN) →
psychotherapy:
A large part of how we relate to people emotionally may be hardwired into our DNA. A new study suggests that character traits such as being open, caring, and trusting are so strongly linked to a certain gene variation that a total stranger, simply by watching us listen to another person, may be able to guess whether we have the variation with a high degree of accuracy.
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Imprisoned by the past: Unhappy moods lead to a... →
psychotherapy:
Evidence suggests that mind wandering is a frequent accompaniment to an unhappy mood. Building on such work, two laboratory experiments used mood induction to assess whether the greater frequency of mind wandering in a low mood is also accompanied by a shift towards a focus on events from the past. Experiment 1 induced moods via video and induction of an unhappy mood was associated...
Eu sempre soube que era apenas diversão, e bem, isso não dói - apesar de não me...
– O limite da condescendência.
December 2011
6 posts
November 2011
18 posts
2005
“E lá se foram tantos anos…”
Frase que então me remeteria à recém deixada infância. Até pouco tempo, nunca parara para pensar em quanto tempo de fato se passou. Em quão rápido passou. Há poucas semanas ainda me lembro de ter lhe encontrado em meus sonhos, como se ainda fosse parte do meu cotidiano. Até hoje sinto sua falta e me pego pensando em você. Ou na minha memória de você....
Eu não quero estar aqui sem você. Eu não quero ter que te ver em todos os...
– Juli 2011
In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you...
– C.S. Lewis (via rosettes)
October 2011
12 posts
Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go...
– Zooey Deschanel (via eletheowl)