Choke

What the secrets of the brain reveal about getting it right when you have to.

by Sian Beilock, Ph.D.

Feeling Lonely? Take a Warm Bath

By Sian Beilock, Ph.D. on January 25, 2012 in Choke

We often talk about personality in physical terms. Whether it's someone giving us the "cold shoulder" or being a "warm" individual, it's not uncommon to reference, say, temperature when describing the people we know. The idea is that we deal with abstract psychological states the best way we know how — we take them literally. Read More

The brain registers psychological states as physical ones

Submitted by Mike Stone on January 25, 2012 - 11:07am.

I thought the writer was going to say something more interesting: that the psychological states of the brain are mapped, one-to-one, to its physical state, quantum or not.

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Sian Beilock, Ph.D., is a psychology professor at The University of Chicago and an expert on the brain science behind performance failure under pressure.

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