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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 July 7, 2014 

QUICK LOOK: Time alone? Many would rather hurt themselves – Yahoo News

Time alone? Many would rather hurt themselves – Yahoo News. By Kerry Sheridan Here’s an interesting study. Just over 200 people ranging in age from 18 to 77 were simply asked to sit in a room for 15 minutes and then describe the experience to researchers. The room provided very little stimulation: no phones, no […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 June 24, 2014 

Reflections on the Evolution and Deep History of “Mentalization”

Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar has just released a new book entitled Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind. Dunbar wrote his book along with two archaeology colleagues, Clive Gamble and John Gowlett. For simplicity, at times, I’ll refer to Thinking Big as Dunbar’s book. In the rest of this post […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 June 10, 2014 

TRUER WORDS: “Endangered Minds”

Today’s Truer Words come from the 1991 book by education researcher Jane Healy entitled Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It. Healy writes: While the adult community sanctimoniously bewails erosion of academic rigor and achievement … it perpetuates the practices that are shortening children’s attention spans and rendering their brains unfit […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 May 27, 2014 

Follow-up: Grantmaking and Intuition

I trust everyone had a fun and enjoyable Memorial Day weekend. Last week I posted a blog entitled A Few Reflections on Grantmaking and Intuition (05/20/14). Pulling from work by cognitive scientist turned political commentator George Lakoff, I suggested that conservatives tend to use direct cause and effect thinking to address and solve social problems […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 May 20, 2014 

A Few Reflections on Grantmaking and Intuition

Way back in September of 2008 I attended the annual conference of the Association of Small Foundations (now called Exponent Philanthropy) up in Denver. There was one concurrent session that I was particularly interested in: The Secret of Effective Grants: The Power of Intuition. This session was put on by Chet Tchozewski and Gabriel Works. […]

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