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Posts tagged with 'research'

Recent research: articles from April journals

3rd May 2011

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 15,800 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: articles from March journals

7th April 2011

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 15,700 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: articles from February journals

3rd March 2011

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 15,600 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: two studies on relationships, two on body to mind effects, and two on mindfulness

17th February 2011

Here are details of half a dozen recent research papers - two on relationships, two on body to mind effects, and two on mindfulness. Fuller details, links and abstracts of all the studies mentioned are given further down this post. First a couple of relationship studies. Gibb & colleagues reported …

International Journal of Wellbeing: a new, free full-text publication

6th February 2011

January saw the publication of the first edition of the new, free full-text International Journal of Wellbeing. It's good news. The opening editorial - "Promoting research on wellbeing" - starts "Welcome to the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW). The IJW is an open access peer-reviewed journal …

Recent research: articles from January journals

3rd February 2011

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 15,500 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: articles from December journals

6th January 2011

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 15,400 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: 2 studies on child adversity-adult illness links, 2 on prevalence, & 2 on how adversity may lead to resilience

16th December 2010

Here are seven recent research studies - largely about the effects of early life adversity on adult psychological health (although I've slipped in one I find important on the prevalence & effects of subsyndromal/subclinical symptoms). The last two papers touch on the truth or falsity of Nietsche's famous saying "What …

Recent research: articles from November journals

2nd December 2010

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 15,300 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: 4 studies on prayer and their implications for compassion, loving-kindness & goodwill meditation practices

24th November 2010

"If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion" Dalai Lama I was struck by three recent research papers on intercessory prayer, and one somewhat less recent meta-analysis. What I found most interesting about these studies is their potential relevance for meditation/prayer …