Quotes by Robin Marantz Henig - Page 1

The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.
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Modern Life
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The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered.
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Essence
Fluid
Sequence
Actions
Scattered
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Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies.
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Bitter
Decision Making
Emotion
Painful
Regret
Avoid
Drives
Strategies
Urge
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The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.
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Puberty
Maturing
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For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.
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Humans
Spontaneous
Vigorous
Alike
Biological
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If you're satisfied with your social life, according to psychologists, you tend to be satisfied with life in general.
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Satisfied
Social
Social Life
According
General
Psychologists
Tend
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Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger.
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Danger
Objective
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Many of us are tethered to bodies that sabotage us in our struggle to keep from getting fat, or to slim down when we do.
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Sabotage
Slim
Fat
Bodies
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It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.
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Middle Aged
Rite
Dumping
Generational
Invent
Passage
Stereotypes
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To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.
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Life Me People
Life Always Your
Avoid
Regrets
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Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.
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Mankind
Wizards
Angels
Witches
Demons
Religions
Folk
Spirits
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Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.
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Adulthood
Maturity
Pace
Shuffle
Unison
Uneven
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Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises enough.
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Biology
Critical
Obesity
Boils
Context
Eats
Exercises
Sets
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Through social media, young people are constantly being pinged about a whole slew of potentially better matches or social activities.
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Social Media
Activities
Matches
Potentially
Young People
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The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life.
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Long Term
Missing
Life Fear People
Friendships
Happier
Real Thing
Richer
Young People
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Whatever the reason for any one individual's tendency to gain weight, the only way to lose the weight is to eat less and exercise more.
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Gain
Gain Weight
Tendency
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Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.
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Conditions
Loneliness
Related
Affects
Scant
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Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits.
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Yearning
Practical
Pursuits
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In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.
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Adaptive
Anxious
Benefits
Caution
Introspection
Modern World
Temperament
Qualities
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Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handful of very good friends who know me well and like me anyway.
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Handful
Good Me Know
Anyway
Good Friends
Happiest
Relatives
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When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success.
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Explanation
Survival
Biologists
Trait
Enhance
Evolutionary
Gene
Reproductive
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I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband.
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Apartment
Living Room
Single Word
Utter
Desk
Freelance
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The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.
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Brain
Capacity
Chronology
Encounters
Human Brain
Logic
Matter
Narrative
Apparently
Complete
Whatever
Evolved
Impose
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The chance you passed up or missed could have had any number of different outcomes, and it's easy to fantasize about how much better every one of those outcomes would have been.
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Outcomes
Fantasize
Missed
Passed
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As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends largely on how any one brain pathway is used.
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Depends
Pruning
Largely
Occur
Pathway
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The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible. Decisions and actions during this time have lasting ramifications.
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Human Development
Lasting
Outcomes
Ramifications
Stem
Stem Cell
Actions
Cell
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As people construct a life narrative, researchers have found, they tend to remember more events from the teens and twenties than from any other time. It's called the 'reminiscence bump.'
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Narrative
Researchers
Teens
Twenties
Life Time Remember
Bump
Construct
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In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth canal, which is riddled with bacteria, some of which make their way onto the newborn's skin.
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Journey
Bacteria
Birth
Colonization
Humans
Newborn
Womb
Begins
Canal
Onto
Riddled
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The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.
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Recall
Vividly
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I regret not working harder to create true friendships with other couples, not seeking out people with whom to go do things and go places - people with whom to have a few crazy, memorable bonding adventures.
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Bonding
Harder
Memorable
Regret
Seeking
Adventures
True
Couples
Create
Working
Few
Friendships
Places
Whom
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The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.
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Collusion
Deception
Denial
Different
English Language
Exaggeration
Self Deception
Shade
Words
According
English
Count
Each
Meaning
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Alright, alright, I admit it: my husband is the quiet, kind, accepting parent, and I'm the one who wants so much to be part of our two daughters' lives than I can't even let them finish a story without interrupting.
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Alright
Interrupting
Parent
Quiet
Admit
Finish
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I'm always made a little uncomfortable by studies that assert that Millennials are the most narcissistic generation in history. To me, being young has always meant being self-absorbed; in many ways, that's what youth is for.
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Millennials
Self Absorbed
Uncomfortable
Assert
Studies
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Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.
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Doom
Dropping
Preparing
Robust
Always People Children
Mentally
Anticipating
Brains
Portfolio
Dreaded
Shoe
Stock
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There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on your back, absolutely still, with your head immobilized by pillows and straps. The scanner makes a dreadful din, which headphones barely muffle.
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Headphones
Barely
Din
Dreadful
Pillows
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Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.
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Coffee
Lonely
Only Love
Socializing
Love Time Myself
Relatives
Surprised
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Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless kids to work off steam; more than a way for chubby kids to burn off calories; more than a frivolous luxury.
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Calories
Consensus
Developing
Frivolous
Humans
Luxury
Restless
Steam
Alike
Work View Way
Burn
Chubby
Scientists
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Beliefs about how lying looks are plentiful and often contradictory: depending on whom you choose to believe, liars can be detected because they fidget a lot, hold very still, cross their legs, cross their arms, look up, look down, make eye contact or fail to make eye contact.
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Arms
Contact
Eye Contact
Legs
Liars
Lying
Plentiful
Beliefs
Cross
Depending
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Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway.
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Devious
National Security
Nonverbal
Omission
Security
Self Serving
Type
Unique
Commission
Involve
Lies
Neural
Pathway
Undermine
Verbal
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Elderly parents tend to think their relationship with their middle-aged children is smoother than the children do. Adult grandchildren, who have little stake in pulling away from their grandparents, tend to describe that relationship as less rose-colored than do Gram and Gramps.
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Elderly
Grandchildren
Middle Aged
Describe
Smoother
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Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions.
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Cognitive
Harm
Human Life
Organisms
Tools
Life People Human
Beliefs
Causal
Desires
Favored
Hardships
Infer
Intentions
Narratives
Presence
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