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The value of the details of trauma

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There’s a division in therapeutic circles—should we focus on the details or trauma or not?
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The trouble with repressed memories

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The notion of repressed memories gets a lot of attention, which has done more harm than good. Memory is a mercurial thing, but by examining it we learn that the kind of memory doesn’t matter. It’s the emotion that’s the key.
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Weber's 'charismatic leader' is misleading

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The ‘charismatic leader’ can be traced back at least to Weber. But it’s a misleading title.
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Brains never stop changing. Teenagers have less white matter in a very poorly understood part of their frontal cortex. This means they are more behaviourally flexible. Not stupid.

Teenage brains aren't undeveloped, they're just doing something else

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There’s a trope we often see about the brains of young people. The idea that the teenage brain is undeveloped, or that the brain isn’t fully developed until the age of 25. Something along these lines. It’s annoying, doesn’t make a lot of sense, and encourages a view of the brain that doesn’t really tell us anything helpful about the brain or the behaviour of young people.
Brains never stop changing. Teenagers have less white matter in a very poorly understood part of their frontal cortex. This means they are more behaviourally flexible. Not stupid.
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Four stages of competence

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Experts are not so valuable anymore, it would appear. One wonders why. Psychology is predominently a discipline of heuristics, applied to answer questions or solve problems of behaviour. This particular heuristic describes well the process of learning, as well what kinds of people don’t value expertise and why.
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