You have to follow through: Attaining behavioral change goals predicts volitional personality change.

Do you have the courage to change?

Attaining Goals Through Partnerships

" To make interesting scientific discoveries, you should acquire as many good friends as possible, who are as energetic, intelligent, and knowledgeable as they can be. " Herbert A. Simpson, Nobel Laureate Models of My Life 1996 Popular science fiction novels and movies frequently portray scientists as solitary eccentrics conducting experiments in laboratories hidden behind revolving bookcases. ...

“I Have a Dream”: A Typology of Social Change Goals

To date, there is little in the way of theorizing or empirical work on the imagined endpoint of political action aimed at social change – the type of “dream” those engaged in action are attempting to bring into fruition. We suggest that previous approaches have focused narrowly on one type of social change – amelioration of collective grievances. In contrast, we argue that social change is much...

LSD-induced entropic brain activity predicts subsequent personality change.

Personality is known to be relatively stable throughout adulthood. Nevertheless, it has been shown that major life events with high personal significance, including experiences engendered by psychedelic drugs, can have an enduring impact on some core facets of personality. In the present, balanced-order, placebo-controlled study, we investigated biological predictors of post-lysergic acid dieth...

Motivating Behavioral Change through Personalized Visual Narratives

This paper discusses the introduction of personalized explorable visual narratives into the Technology Enhanced Learning domain, which were used by 233 students as part of their undergraduate degree program during two successive academic years. The research proposes evaluating the usage of visual narratives to indicate positive behavioral change in student engagement levels. It highlights the i...