Deep Dive: PTSD; nature; wanting; meditation; COVID impact; expensive cars
PTSD, nature, meditation
Positive affect: nature and brain bases of liking and wanting
Compassion Meditation for Veterans with PTSD: Home Practice Matters
Mind of the Meditator - If you want to understand more about the ancient roots and modern science - and benefits - of meditation, you should check out this link from Scientific American.
COVID
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010171 - an app to predict COVID conditions not unlike a weather app. It would likely be useful in many other places but not in the US because we lack the resolve to report our health issues and problems. If it deals with us, we’re likely okay with it. If it means protecting our communities (at the cost of any independence), we don’t want to help on any collective level.
New data shows long Covid is keeping as many as 4 million people out of work - economic impact of long COVID
Organizations, social behavior, and driving us crazy
Compassion and altruism in organizations: a path for firm survival
The Effects of Social Behavior on Well-Being - pdf link: “Researchers are therefore increasingly exploring whether subjective well-being can be improved through interventions that encourage specific types of social behaviors, including prosociality, gratitude, extraversion, and brief social interactions.“Researchers are therefore increasingly exploring whether subjective well-being can be improved through interventions that encourage specific types of social behaviors, including prosociality, gratitude, extraversion, and brief social interactions.”
Does the cost of your car make you less likely to yield to pedestrians? Very probably, yes, according to this What are the implications of this on social economies and the social contract?
On a related note about driving, here’s another journal article about cars and drivers. Not only assholes drive Mercedes. Besides disagreeable men, also conscientious people drive high-status cars
Measuring Mindfulness: 11 Assessments, Scales & Surveys - interesting ideas about measuring mindfulness
Spirituality vs. religion in an fMRI; the FODMAP diet to feel better; and, animal sentience (consciousness)
Comparing the three states of Dhikr, meditation, and thinking about God: an fMRI study - what happens in spirituality doesn’t necessarily stay in religion and other tales.
Animal sentience - Seeing and Somethingness