Introduction It's not really surprising that meditation might aid in executive control, since the act of meditation is basically an exercise in executive control. Take mindfulness, for example, I would say that the fundamental aspects of mindfulness practice is present moment awareness and emotional acceptance; practices that easily could be ... [Read more...]

Ever wanted to look at PubMed trends and make elegant graphs of them? Here’s an R script that will do it automatically for you. [Read more...]

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the psychological treatment of choice for many, if not all, mental disorders. Nonetheless a majority of US clinical psychologist do not primarily identify themselves as either cognitive or behavioral therapists. Looking at data from PubMed publication counts a clear picture emerges; psychodynamic researchers might just be ... [Read more...]

Introduction Even though the effectiveness of mindfulness to reduce pain has been proven in numerous empirical studies its efficacy still remain unclear. Meaning that the effectiveness of mindfulness could be due to some other variable than the specific technique. Potential placebo responses or regression toward the mean could dilute the ... [Read more...]

In this R tutorial you will learn how to work with Google n-gram data sets with the help of MySQL. The complete R code is included in this post. [Read more...]

A new study (Ostafin, B. D., & Kassman, K. T, In Press) examined whether mindfulness meditation could help improve participants' insight problem solving skills. Their hypothesis was that mindfulness might aid in solving of problems that require creative, nonhabitual responses. Insight problems These are problems that typically generate an eureka effect (... [Read more...]