By Hannah Kinzer William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry Richard Davidson, an expert in neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, gave a lecture titled “Well-Being is a Skill” on Thursday, Oct. 28, from 11:10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Memorial Chapel. The lecture was free and open to all members of the community and was part of two lecture series sponsored by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. The two lecture series responsible for co-sponsoring the event are the Liberal Arts in the Century of the Brain Series and the Contemplative Studies Series. Both earn >>>

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SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PSYCHOLOGY Lecturer in Counselling --- Ref 1671/15 Parramatta Campus Full-Time, Ongoing Position The School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University is looking to appoint a Lecturer in Counselling. The School takes pride in educating students in an environment that is contemporary, challenging and adapted to a rapidly evolving world. The School of Social Sciences and Psychology is located across the Bankstown, Parramatta and Penrith campuses of the University. For more information regarding the School, please visit http://westernsydney.edu.au/ssap Western >>>

Nancy Williams is a certified applied animal behaviorist who operates a full-time training and behavior practice for dogs and cats in Manchester. Originally striving to become a veterinarian, Williams shifted her focus to improve training practices after discovering many outdated methods still in use. She has now been working with dogs and cats for over 35 years and has worked in just about every field with animals. (Photo Courtesy of Nancy Williams) Williams has a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s degree in experimental psychology from Towson University. She is also a registered >>>

After having male and female participants look at videos of both naked men and naked women, researchers found that self-identified “straight” women became aroused when looking at naked women. This study builds off previous research which has found women are generally sexually aroused by men and women to varying degrees (we all exist on a continuum; no one is purely gay or straight, the theory goes). New research suggests that women who identify as heterosexual “very rarely are”. Rieger, who published his findings in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, later clarified >>>

GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson has had a lot to say about the "liberal media," and feels the vetting he has experienced is because he is a threat to the "secular progressive movement in this country." No one can accuse the conservative Wall Street Journal of being part of the left, yet even they have raised questions about some anecdotes told by Carson. One incident the WSJ describes is where Carson alleges in his 1990 autobiography "Gifted Hands," that when he was a student at Yale, he took a class called Perceptions 301, wherein the psychology >>>

Republican presidential contender Ben Carson struck back on Sunday, with somewhat mixed results, at a barrage of stories from the media suggesting that he had embellished – or just plain made up – a number of elements in his otherwise compelling life story. He ripped a Wall Street Journal article in which the reporter claimed that a class given at Yale Carson claimed to have taken in his book Gifted Hands, did not actually exist. Carson pushed back by posting to social media what he said was a syllabus from the class. However, Carson claimed to have taken the class in 1970, and the syllabus >>>

You don’t have to believe the “mainstream media.” Ben Carson could settle one question right now and is choosing not to do so. That should increase worries about his truthfulness.You don’t have to trust a single reporter. Dr. Ben Carson is making his situation worse all by himself and I do not understand why he is doing so. The Wall Street Journal ran a story showing they had been unable to verify an anecdote that Dr. Carson had told about himself for years. Carson claimed to win a ten dollar prize for being the most honest student in a psychology class.The problem is that no class exists >>>

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Muslim university organizes seminar on yoga and spirituality inaugurated ALIGARH: “Yoga and spirituality are not the monopoly of any religion and I have myself practiced it for the last 43 years only to find it a complete solution for attainment of spiritual bliss and human well being”, pointed out Lt. Gen. Zameer >>>