Interesting Links for 14-05-2012

[andrewducker]

• 100,000 LED lights float down the Sumida River
  (tags: viaMyBrotherHugh pretty lights )
• Why Hawkeye is awesome
  (tags: avengers comics Hawkeye )
• Why (most) politicians don’t get the internet
  (tags: technology politics internet )
• Why has the UK got so few women scientists?
  (tags: uk science women gender )
• The IFS backs a land value tax
  (tags: uk tax )
• 100-year-old photos of British India
  (tags: photographs india history )
• Civil Partnerships and Marriage: What's The Difference?
  (tags: lgbt law uk marriage )
• Thinking About God Improves Our Self-Control
  (tags: religion god self-control )
• Damon Lindelof talks about "Prometheus", rewrites, and how it changed from being a prequel to "Alien"
  (tags: RidleyScott DamonLindelof movies alien )
• DSM-5, what's in and what's out in the psychiatric profession's diagnostic manual
  (tags: diagnosis psychology )
• The Occupy movement now has a manifesto.
  (tags: politics occupy )
• Someone wants to know if there is a modern browser that runs on Windows 3.1.
  (tags: funny history windows )
• The $144,146,165 Button
  (tags: behaviour taxi technology )
• George Lucas Does Something Admirable
  Movies
  (tags: georgelucas )
• An awesome iPad engraving
  (tags: brains ipad )
• Edible Chocolate Brain from MRI Scan - 3D Printing FTW!
  (tags: brains food chocolate 3dprinting )
• RE: The Dark One, In Case It Should Arise from Its Horrible Abyss
  (tags: fiction short_story )
• The dangers of chiropractic treatments are under-reported
  (tags: chiropractic research )

Comments

Thinking About God Improves Our Self-Control

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

When I read the first half, what I immediately thought of was identifying as part of a group. I remembered an article saying that people seemed to do better when they thought of themself as the kind of person who didn't do X, than when they explicitly tried to avoid doing X. (And also that it's in some ways easier to cut something out entirely than to cut down on it.)

But the second half suggests there is an effect of thinking about God even if you don't identify as religious, so I don't know.

Re: Thinking About God Improves Our Self-Control

[andrewducker]

I suspect that it's tapping into aliefs - that people don't believe in God, but it still triggers feelings of being watched and judged.

Re: Thinking About God Improves Our Self-Control

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that seems very likely. I wonder if you could distinguish between these variants...?