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...Psych department may have finally one-upped the professorial trio of Summers, Sandel, and Friedman from 2005’s Social Analysis 76, “Globalization,” by offering Psychology 1002, “Morality and Taboo.” The course’s professors—a one-two punch of Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker and the Law School’s Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz—will likely draw lots of students with their popularity (not to mention that the popular Positive Psychology, Psychology of Leadership...
...Psych department may have finally one-upped the professorial trio of Summers, Sandel, and Friedman from 2005’s Social Analysis 76 “Globalization” by offering Psychology 1002, “Morality and Taboo.” The course’s professors—a one-two punch of Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker and the Law School’s Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz—will likely draw lots of students with their popularity (and the perennially popular Positive Psychology, Psychology of Leadership, and Human Sexuality...
...order. I will admit that I’ve reformed substantially since my freshman year, thanks to a decent set of tips offered by concerned friends and self-help websites. But guidance on reducing procrastination is readily available at the Bureau of Study Counsel or in a Positive Psych PowerPoint. Instead, I’ll recommend ways to push that deadline into your comfort zone. With deadlines flying by, one needs to develop the proper skill set to keep the old GPA from flagging. Professors can be a reactionary bunch, and they need to be let down gently when they...
...find something—anything—else to do. Some would have you believe that no matter what other activity you decide to take up, you’re still procrastinating, and that’s wrong, shameful, and possibly detrimental to your positive state of mind (thanks, Psych 1504). They’re only half right. If you’re doing something other than what you’re supposed to be doing, you are indeed procrastinating. But that doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing. While “productive procrastination...
...months ago in these pages, Leon Neyfakh dissected the phenomenon of Harvard’s uber-popular feel-good course, Psychology 1504, “Positive Psychology.” Now, with the semester coming to close, FM follows up with the big question: are Positive Psych kids any happier? Students say they are flying high after spending a semester learning techniques for positive living—strategies for dealing with procrastination, for coping with stressful situations, and for stepping out of their comfort zones—with Lecturer on Psychology Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96, affectionately...