John Gottman is a psychologist and marriage researcher who conducted a study that could accurately predict 90% of the time whether a marriage would fail or not. His research showed that for successful marriages there was a 5:1 positive to negative ratio which means for every one negative action‚ you must have 5 positive actions to make up for just that one negative action. In marriages that failed the ratio was quite different at .8:1. His research also showed that it’s not conflict that ruins relationships
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Blink: the power of thinking without thinking Malcolm Gladwell When I saw the title‚ Blink: the power of thinking without thinking‚ I have decided in a blink of an eye that I have to read the book. And it was the best thing to do. The book opens with a very interesting case study: an unusual piece of art (korus) has been discovered and brought to a museum for selling. There‚ the museum’s group of art experts‚ after having studied and analyzed thoroughly the statue‚ elicits it is an
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Like hyperactivation and deactivation‚ emotional and physical withholding can be very damaging to a relationship when it becomes a long-term problem. One of John Gottman’s steps in his Sound Relationship House Theory is to turn towards each other. He uses the example of one person mentioning something outside. The other person either completely ignores the comment‚ acknowledges it but doesn’t give their full attention‚ or turns toward their partner completely. If a partner is withholding‚ they will
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Kazakhstan Instructor’s name: Brad Comann Student’s name: Ruslan Assanbekov “There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in month of rational analysis” ~Malcolm Gladwell‚ Blink (9). Every day we are faced with decisions. The quality of them often determines the pattern of our lives. There’s the question: “How to make the best decision?” Although the majority of people are used to saying
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Marko Ceki Mrs. Reed AP Lang 3A 15 November 2012 Blink Blink is a book about rapid cognition‚ about the kind of thinking that happens in a blink of an eye. When you meet someone for the first time‚ or walk into a house you are thinking of buying‚ or read the first few sentences of a book‚ your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions. From this book I learned many things for example that our brain is like a big computer that contains and processes lots of data. This book showed
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INTRODUCTION The Attentional Blink Experiment aims to determine the capability of an individual to recognize both the targets given that he or she is subjected to rapidly changing stimuli. Moreover‚ the theory states that after the detection of the first target in a rapid stream of visual stimuli‚ the second target is missed (Niewenstain‚ Potter‚ & Theeuwes‚ 2009). Hence‚ the experiment means to prove whether attentional blink is present in the experiment and if the theory is correct.
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Blink of the Mind Blink‚ this wonderful book from Malcolm Gladwell sparked my interest from the moment I read a brief summary over it. The book covers over how individuals are able to make lightning fast decisions accurately as if they had thought it out. During my last remaining weeks of procrastination I found this book was enjoyable until its unfortunate end of the last page. The book held many favorable page turners for me. As I was already a fan of how people’s minds work. It talked about thin-slicing
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BLINK- SUMMARY The Blink thesis can be summarised thus: * Split-second decisions can be far more accurate than drawn-out‚ deliberate‚ “rational”‚ decisions. * However‚ split-second decisions can also be heavily flawed. * Interventions can be made to help people harness the power of split-second decisions. EVIDENCE OF SPLIT-SECOND DECISIONS OVER DELIBERATE DECISIONS * Experiment subjects quickly started following the profitable strategy in a card game‚ but could not explain why until much later
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Blink 182 The artist that I chose for my research paper is Blink 182. This band is not known for taking a big political stance or rebelling against any major social issues‚ but rather‚ they rebel against something that hits much closer to home. The main thing that Blink 182 is rebelling against is parental authority and other forms of adult authority. Their audience was comprised mostly of teenagers‚ considering that these kids could relate to the music that the band played. I feel that the reason
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Blink-182 The legend that is blink-182 started way back in 1992‚ by Mark Hoppus (bass‚ vocals)‚ Tom Delonge (guitar‚ vocals) and Scott Raynor (drums). Origionally just called blink‚ they were forced to change their name when an Irish techno band also called blink threatened to sue them. Although there are countless rumours of what the 182 stands for‚ ranging from the number of times certain words are said in movies to numbers that relate to where they live to the number of times that they have
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