Mar 24, 2008 — Doing things for you makes me feel good — but if off balance, it might push you away. The Ben Franklin Effect says that we come to like more those people for whom we do a favor. So we like people not based on the favors they do for... Read more

Mar 3, 2008 — Affection: the spectrum of emotional vs physical — This is the way that it usually works, when I want to express what I’m thinking: when it rains, it pours! So I want to talk about one more idea, Kelly’s idea of “constructs.” Constructs are interpretations that we have... Read more

Mar 3, 2008 — Interesting Ideas from today's studying — People with more right brain activation (those feeling, creative types) are more vulnerable to negative emotion, and those with more left brain activation are more prone to positive emotions (or possibly just a lack of the negative, hmm?) The entire... Read more

Feb 16, 2008 — You are only as strong as I perceive you to be — I’ve been thinking about Rogers phenomenological viewpoint and the idea of actual versus ideal self, and of course have some thoughts. I have an appreciation for the phenomenological viewpoint because it imbues the individual with free will and states that... Read more