MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'introversion'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:30 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4238171&cid=t_108194_180_f&fid=38609&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidSeah-BetterLivingThroughNewMedia%2F%7E3%2Fx2YNqMufUUg%2F Hello world! I’ve been sick for the past three weeks, having succumbed to either closet dust on my winter clothing (which tends to trigger bronchitis) or a pastry that I saw a little kid touch moments before I ingested it; I shall not underestimate the power of child-incubated germs in the future. Anyway, it’s been quite some time since I’ve been this sick, and I’ve had to slow waaaay down. The silver lining is that it’s become a time of reflection. I documented most of this in The Google Wave with Colleen™, which sort of works like a text-adventure version of a magic mirror. A lot of what’s on my mind is related to stepping up my game to dig myself out of this plateau I feel I’m in. 2010 is almost over, and this was the year I had hoped to ... David Seah - Design, Development, Inspiration, Empowerment blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4238171 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:27:24 +0100 4238171 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1917947&cid=t_108194_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F10%2F29%2Fwikipedia-members-less-agreeable-open%2F In a surprising irony, a recent study has found that Wikipedia members score lower on traits of agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness. Wikipedia has long been touted as a transparent anyone-can-edit encyclopedia of the world’s knowledge. Articles published in it are hypothetically edited by group consensus. One might theorize that in order to produce a successful and accurate encyclopedia in this manner, members would have to be, to a certain degree, more agreeable and conscientious than those who don’t choose to edit it. The study recruited 139 people online, of which 69 were active Wikipedia members. Men compromised 85.5% of the Wikipedia members and women, 14.5%. It’s not clear exactly how the researchers did their recruiting, which may have resulted in a le... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1917947 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:10:00 +0100 1917947 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=676164&cid=t_108194_122_f&fid=35065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F06%2Fdifficult-temperaments-resistant-to.html From Jerome Kagan's work (Boston Globe):"At 4 months old, plop your baby into a bouncy seat and present him with a series of colorful new toys - ones he's never seen - one after the other, for 20 seconds at a time...If he screams at 4 months, he'll be more likely to stay home from junior-high dances. If he screams, he'll be more likely to answer "no" when a psychologist asks, at age 11, "Are you happy most of the time?"It won't really matter if you cuddled your child as an infant or showered him with play dates as a toddler. He'll probably never be a brash CEO or politician, although he might become a brilliant solitary researcher or a melancholy poet.On the other hand, if your baby just stares calmly at the toys, he will be calm on dates but also slightly more likely to become a delinquen... Eide Neurolearning Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=676164 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:02:00 +0100 676164 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=508528&cid=t_108194_122_f&fid=35065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fautism-and-engineer-hypothesis.html Links below are to an article interviewing Simon Baron-Cohen about his Autism-Engineer Hypothesis. Excerpt:"If Baron-Cohen is right, today's male engineer is more likely to leave the house wearing a stained tie than his professional forebears, simply because he is more likely to be married to a woman who is herself of the systemizing persuasion...Such "assortative mating," as he calls it, would have served to concentrate the critical genes, increasing the chance that such a couple will give birth to the most extreme systemizers of all those with autism." Baron-Cohen's latest article is Two new theories of autism: hyper-systemising and assortative mating. In fact, older studies like Autism occurs more often in families of physicists, engineers, and mathematicians had claimed higher rates of... Eide Neurolearning Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=508528 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:03:00 +0100 508528