Human Nature

Sex and Race Might Not Be What You Think: Two Things You Need to Know About Human Nature

Agustin Fuentes | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Gender and Race, Human Nature Myths, Race Myths, Sex Race Myths, Gender Myths, Human Nature, Sex and Race, Science News

Why should we care that myths of race and sex are so resilient, in spite of their inaccuracy? Because they matter in our daily lives.

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Voice of the Hidden Waterfall

Tamsin Smith | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Choral Music, Michael Stillwater, Aristotle, Shining Night Film, Morten Lauridsen, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Human Nature, Culture News

When I hear Morten Lauridsen's choral composition, I sense a boundless beauty and tenderness within the nature of humankind. Here, there is no place for evil. Perhaps his music is even the wind that would bend us to be better.

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Wealth School: Making the Most of Your Resources (VIDEO)

Anne Naylor | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Wealth, Human Spirit, Human Condition, Human Nature, Wisdom, Wealth and Compassion, Definition Wealth, Wealth Money, Meaning Wealth, Mindfulness, Meaning of Wealth, Wealth and Generosity, Definition of Wealth, Wealth and Giving, What Is Wealth, Gps-Soul, Video, Healthy Living News

The human spirit within you is a primary resource you can tap into to find your way through your difficulties and into the life you truly want to create, experience and fulfill.

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Becoming a Natural Mom, Eagle Style

Sherri Edwards | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Eagles, Celebrity Moms, Instinct, Alicia Silverstone, Parenting Tips, Mothering, Mayim Bialik, Mom Style, January Jones, Traditional Parenting, Celebrity Style, Nontraditional Parenting, Human Nature, Decorah Eagles, Parenting Advice, Parents-Kids, Nontraditional Families, Parents-Moms, Parents News

Have you noticed lately that some celebrity moms are taking mothering to a new level?

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Storied Nature Of Human Nature

William Grassie | Posted 05.15.2012

By my rough estimation, we spend perhaps 50 percent or more of our waking hours in storytelling. Humans make stories but, in some sense, we are also made by our stories.

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When It Comes To Attraction, Context Matters

Sam Sommers | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Attractiveness, Physical Attraction, Love and Relationships, Love, Mate-Choice Copying, Facial Expressions, Context, Situations Matter, Human Nature, New Research, Male Attractiveness, Attractiveness Psychology, Physical Attractiveness, Emotional Intelligence, Female Attractiveness, Facial Attractiveness, Video, Healthy Living News

What makes someone attractive to you? Specific physical features? A particular personality type? A certain indefinable quality of character or depth of soul? All reasonable answers, sure, but there's another critical influence on who you're attracted to: context.

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What You Don't Know About People

Sam Sommers | Posted 02.29.2012

You've been lied to. Or, at the very least, misled. It's simply not true that everything you need to know about life you learned in Kindergarten.

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The Science of Seinfeld

Sam Sommers | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, Television, Situations Matter, Daily Show, Media, The Daily Show, Irs, Tax Writeoff, Dvds, Social Norms, Ethnicity, Race, Human Nature, Love and Relationships, Context-Dependent, Fabric of Society, Attraction, Attribution, Identity, Love, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Elaine Benes, Curb Your Enthusiasm, George Costanza, Kramer, Video, Entertainment News

Far from a "show about nothing," Seinfeld was actually an analysis of the ins and outs of daily human interaction-of the mundane social experiences previously not deemed worthy of exploration in front of a mass audience.

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'Tis the Season to Notice Situations

Sam Sommers | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Gift List, Holidays, Holiday Season, Routine, Thanksgiving, Childhood Home, Situations Matter, Shopping Mall, Greeting Cards, Context, Human Nature, Social Norms, Lord of the Flies, Unwritten Rules, Dunkin Donuts, Scattergories, Family, Video, Books News

While we tend to view ourselves and others around us in terms of predictably consistent personality types, time and time again behavioral science demonstrates that how we think and what we do varies dramatically by simple situational considerations like where we are.

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Novak Djokovic and the Crowd Whisperer of the U.S. Open

Sam Sommers | Posted 11.07.2011

A video has been making the internet rounds showing tennis star Novak Djokovic dancing himself silly after a victory at the U.S. Open, but Djokovic's impromptu dance performance wasn't actually impromptu.

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The #1 Way To Disarm Your Ex

J. Richard Kulerski | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Anti-War Divorce Mindset, Divorce Lies, Reason Lies, Divorce Legal System, Human Nature, Divorcing Party, Divorce Legal, Divorce News

I have practiced divorce law for 48 years. I've worked with and against just about every type of divorcing spouse imaginable: unreasonable, practical,...

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It's in Our Nature to Blame Mother Nature

Charlie Carillo | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Father Time, Natural Disasters, Hurricanes, God, Mother Nature, Hurricane Irene, Gratitude, Human Nature, New York News

Mother Nature took it on the chin for this past weekend's hurricane (or hurricane-ette, as it turned out for many New York City residents.)

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Don't Blame Human Nature

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Poke the Box, Conditioning, Seth Godin, Do the Work, Morty Lefkoe, Psychology, Beliefs, Parenting, Self-Esteem, Human Nature, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News

The basic beliefs that underlie common psychological traits were almost always formed in childhood, in our interactions with our parents.

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His Holiness And The Art And Science Of Interfaith Cooperation

Eboo Patel | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Towards a True Kinship of Faiths, Dalai Lama Chicago, Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama Interfaith Cooperation, Interfaith Youth Core, Buddhism, Religious Tolerance, Interfaith Cooperation, Human Nature, Compassion, Happiness, Religion News

What's the Dalai Lama's secret? He's got over two million Twitter followers, his speeches sell out stadiums. In a highly cynical age, he's held the public's attention for over two decades with some pretty elementary ideas.

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What Is The Greatest Mystery?

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 09.08.2011

Read More: Mystery, Science, Bible, God, Human Nature, Mysticism, Jewish Spirituality, Spiritual Journey, Rabbi Hayyim Halberstam, Jewish Cosmology, Spiritual Awe, Zohar Chadash, Judaism, Religion News

As the poet Novalis wrote: "Inward goes the way full of mystery." The more we explore ourselves and our souls, the more complicated, multilayered, profound and baffling we become.

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An Exercise for the Practice of Freedom

Carol Smaldino | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Al Gore, Reality TV, Rolling Stone, Human Climate, Feelings-Fitness, News Media, Nuclear, Human Nature, Inconvenient Truth, Politics News

I have found it ironic and frustrating that environmentalists generally haven't included the necessary alarm about and investigation into the human climate of divisiveness, distraction and denial.

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How To Change 'Human Nature'

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 07.29.2011

Read More: Human Nature, Changing Human Nature, Self Help, Changing Beliefs, Healthy Living News

Are you bothered by a psychological problem that you aren't even trying to get rid of because you think it's "human nature" and can't be eliminated? If so, you aren't alone.

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Evolution And Christianity: Did We Arrive By Chance?

Michael Ruse | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Darwinian Evolution, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, Human Nature, Simon Conway Morris, Religion and Science, New Atheism, Christianity and Evolution, The Pope and Evolution, Dinosaurs, Religion News

It is important to see if any shade of modern thought about the evolution of humans suggests that our appearance was inevitable. And I think Christians have still got a problem here.

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Human Cooling, Global Warming and Childhood Obesity

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Obesity, Diet, Global Warming, Human Nature, Exercise, Childhood Obesity, Healthy Living News

"Bring back that lovin' feeling!" --The Righteous Brothers Are we getting even with an unloving world by taking from Mother Nature and then eating...

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A Non-Trivial Advantage for Watson

Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reason, Transhumanism, Jeopardy, Jeopardy!, Trivia, Psychology, Watson Jeopardy, Human Nature, Logic, Smarter Ideas, Technology News

As a former Jeopardy contestant myself, I knew Watson was beating them where it hurt, not with superior general knowledge of trivia, but by avoiding typical human logical weaknesses.

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Islam And The Innate Beauty Of Human Nature

William C. Chittick, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Adam, Beauty, Love, Human Nature, Names for God, Bible, God, Muslim Names for God, Quran, Creation, Allah, Religion News

The quickest way to get at the notion of innate human beauty is to reflect on the Judeo-Christian principle of the divine image, reaffirmed in the Prophet's saying, "God created Adam in His form."

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Exhibition Spotlight: Celebrating "Human Nature" At LAX

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exhibition Spotlight, Art, Annie Buckley, Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, Dane Picard, Lax, Environment, ARt Exhibition, US Airways, Southwest Airlines, Los Angeles, Airport Security, Air Travel, Slidefullscreen, Human Nature, Arts News

WHO: Annie Buckley and Dane Picard WHAT: Human Nature WHEN: October 2010 - February 2011 WHERE: Los Angeles International Airport Gate One, Termina...

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Will the Commons Become Tragic?

Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic System, Greed, Morality, Capitalism, Common Good, Human Nature, Politics News

Every man for himself would be a rational approach if men and women were merely economic creatures. But there is also such a thing as moral man, who confronts the necessity of protecting the commons and preventing tragedy brought on by greed.

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Who Speaks for the Victimizers?

Ned Goldreyer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet, Cyberbullying, Bully, Bullying, Human Comedy, Humanity, Bullies, Cyberbullies, Cyberbully, Facebook, Comedy, Human Nature, Comedy News

The schoolyard bully is in trouble. Not the cool kind that earned him our hate-masked envy, (Remember when he stole that egg carton we lovingly decou...

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No Time For Downtime? Getting Your Brain To Work Better

Matthew Edlund, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Stress, Rest, Active, Brain, Body Clock, Sex, Health, Brain Fitness, Stress Reduction, How-to-Pay-Attention, Human Nature, Sleep, Creative, Unplug and Recharge, Healthy Living News

Don't believe Woody Allen when he says the brain is his "second most favorite organ." Make it your favorite organ. Treat your brain as the creative, renewing center of your mind.

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