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Toddlers on Acid: Deconstructing the Self Through Psychedelics

Note: The author of this piece is neither endorsing nor condemning the use of psychedelics. Let’s have a pop quiz! You are dropped into a mysterious location, and…

Paris Bennett: Using Rationality to Heighten Negative Emotion

Barrett states that the United States’ legal system assumes that emotions are part of our supposed animal nature and cause us to perform foolish and even violent acts,…

Chapter 3: Discriminating Sexism (Manne) Class Leadership Discussion

Highlights In her third chapter called “Discriminating Sexism,” Manne delves into the relationship between sexism and misogyny. While she acknowledges that misogyny could have a more general definition…

Can Neuroscience Help Students Create an Ideal College Experience?

The college experience, in accordance with the continued rise of social media, has become increasingly demanding for undergraduate students. Students suffer from unparalleled levels of stress, anxiety, depression,…

Tell Your Story in Art: How Art Therapy Helps Us Master Our Emotions According to constructivism?

——————– I: Background of Art Therapy ——————– Art therapy includes various forms of art: visual art, music, and creative writing, etc. Art therapy is commonly used for people…

Down Girl: Introduction and Chapter 1; Strawson, “Freedom and Resentment”

As is customary, we began the class with Mood Check. We then proceeded to discuss the assigned reading: the introduction to, and the first chapter of Down Girl,…

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[In Which I Set the Tone] Enter a man in the scene. Let’s say this man is shopping for grocery. He is of any age you prefer to…

What to Fear?: Reconciling Heidegger’s View on Death and Barrett

Each of us, human beings that is, shares one important destination on the road of our lives. Death. Not dying, as the variety of means by which we…

TRIGGER WARNING: The Constructionist Approach to Eating Disorders

TRIGGER WARNING: DO NOT read if prone to eating disordered thinking. Introduction The Essentialist (Natural-Human) View of emotions maintains the idea that the mental and the physical (including…

Understanding Depression Through a Constructed View of Emotions

Have you ever heard someone say that sickness is a mental game? Well, believe it or not, they are not completely wrong. Lisa Feldman Barret, a psychologist and…