Personality and Spirituality Archives

5 Ways To Connect Science And Spirituality 0
- Health & Medicine, Personality and Spirituality
- July 7, 2015
Exploring the scientific background of spiritual claims. Science and spirituality are two forces that seem to counteract each other. While science focuses on the natural world, spirituality connects us to the supernatural (or something bigger than ourselves). While science seeks the origin of species, spirituality may give direction in life. So what is the connection?
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An Om A Day Keeps The Doctor Away 0
- Health & Medicine, Personality and Spirituality
- October 21, 2014
A regular meditation practice is the best prescription you can get. Time has come for me to say it: I meditate. Every day. Some people will think I am coming out, some others will rather say I am outing and think of me as a hippy- freak- weirdo that protects herself from substances abuse with
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Who Do You Think You Are?0
- Genes & Identity, Mind & Brain, Personality and Spirituality
- August 30, 2013
The issue with workplace personality tests. Employers recognise that work performance can’t be predicted perfectly by formal qualifications, references and interviews. Job candidates may have sheaves of diplomas, incandescent recommendations, a charming demeanour and a firm handshake but still turn out to be poor performers. Could these costly recruitment errors be averted? One missing ingredient
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Your Childhood Friends Predict Your Adult Personality 1
- Friends and Relationships, Mind & Brain, Personality and Spirituality
- October 14, 2012
Childhood friends strongly influence who you become later in life. Did you turn out to be who you thought you’d become when you were little? Not very probable. Research shows that we are not the best estimators of our future personality. Our peers seem to know way better in what social direction we’re headed. Listening
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Born to Kill? Psychopaths Have Distinct Brains 0
- Crime and Behavior, Mind & Brain, Personality and Spirituality
- May 8, 2012
Psychiatrists have found the strongest evidence yet that psychopaths have structural abnormalities in their brains. According to their research, psychopaths have less grey matter in the areas of the brain important for understanding other peoples’ emotions. A research team of the King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry used brain scans to investigate the brains of
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