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Personal, Psychology

It’s Important to Experience Challenging Emotions

Jackie / April 17, 2022

Disappointment. Frustration. Anger. Fear. Grief. These are just a few emotions that people may think of as negative emotions. I think of them as very informative emotions… if we’re willing to experience them and reflect on them.

Martial Arts, Personal, Psychology

A Tribute to Ryan Holderman, the Best Teacher I’ve Had

Jackie / April 6, 2022

I was a pretty typical, cocky high-school freshman some mumblety years ago: I was sure I had the system figured out, and thought I was ready for anything. Being interested in science, I signed up for Biology I. I had no idea what was about to happen to me…

Psychology

Why Does the Concept of Affordances Still Seem So Difficult for Some Psychologists to Understand?

Jackie / March 29, 2022

Dr. James Gibson’s revolutionary ecological theory of perceiving and acting has been around for over 40 years. A key element in his theory is the concept of affordances. Yet even after all the time and years that psychologists have written about affordances, the concept still doesn’t seem well understood. Why?

Personal, Psychology

Why I Became a Psychologist

Jackie / March 28, 2022

This is the personal question my students have asked me most often over the years, which makes it as good a place as any to start.

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