by Sian Beilock
premotor cortex, 29–30
Primate Laboratory (University of Wisconsin), 147–49, 160
Princeton University, 74
Proctor & Gamble, 100
Protestants, on morality, 166
Prozac, 11, 13
Prozac Nation (Wurtzel), 12
psychotherapy, 11, 13
Pulvermüller, Friedemann, 114, 116–18
public speaking, 178
Q
QWERTY keyboard/QWERTY effect, 93–97, 96, 249n21
R
Radcliffe, Daniel, 36
reading, 50–53, 57, 233
Restylane, 18
Rizzolatti, Giacomo, 29–30
Robert Taylor Homes (Chicago), 214–15
Roethlisberger, Ben, 122
Rosenbaum, David, 98–99
S
SAD (seasonal affective disorder), 155–56
al-Sadat, Anwar, 156
Salk Institute (University of California, San Diego), 171
Sally-Anne Test, 133–34
San Felice Circeo (Italy), 209–10
Sapolsky, Robert, 157
Saron, Clifford, 195
Schaffer, Karl, 57–58, 60
schizophrenia, 221
School of the Built Environment (Edinburgh), 218
seasonal affective disorder (SAD), 155–56
self-medication, 239n20
sensory cortex, 141–42
Shakespeare, William: Macbeth, 164
Shambhala Mountain Center (Colorado Rockies), 195
Sharapova, Maria, 74
shoe obsessions, 116
Sholes, Christopher, 93
Sibley, Ben, 175–77
Simmons, Richard, 180
Sipotz, Brian, 122
Sloan School of Management (MIT), 177, 259n9
smiling. See frowning/smiling
social brain hypothesis, 224–25
social warmth, 147–68
affection’s role in, 148
and contact comfort, 149–50
distance’s role in, 160–64, 235, 257n16
and loneliness, 155, 164, 230
and the Milgram experiments, 160–62
and the mother-infant bond, 147–48, 150
overview of, 147–50
rejection, physical pain of, 156–59, 230
and romantic movies, 155, 256n8
and seasonal affective disorder (SAD), 155–56
and team building, 159
temperature’s role in, 151–56, 256n4, 256n7
somatosensory cortex, 139, 156, 254n8
somatotopic maps, 115, 115–16
Stern, Erik, 57–58, 60
Street Fighter video game, 124
stress
of city living, 222–23
effects on the brain, 211
facial expressions’ effects on, 15
measuring, 200
meditation for relieving, 199–200
strokes, 43, 114, 117–18
sweating, 18
T
Tebow, Tim, 75
telomerase, 196
temporal-parietal junction (TPJ), 141–42
testosterone, 73–74
thinking. See also mind/body relationship
as embodied, 5–6, 22–25
external influences on, overview of, 5–7, 9
human vs. computer, 4–5
Thinking Fast and Slow (Kahneman), 6
Trump, Donald, 75
Tylenol, 8, 25, 158–59, 230
typewriter keyboards/typing speed, 93–97, 96, 235, 249n18, 249n21
U
Ujjayi breath (cobra breathing), 189–90
understanding others, 107–28
abstract concepts via the literal, 118–21, 252n19
brain, mental processes located in, 107, 109–10
language understanding, 109–11, 113, 116–18, 251n5
mind reading, 107–18, 115
via phrenology, 107–9
via your own experience, 121–28, 234, 252n22, 253n25
University of Maine, 91–92
V
visual cliff experiment, 33–34
W
walkers for babies, 33–35, 233
walking, slow, 186
Wallace, B. Alan, 195
washing rituals/movements, 164, 166–67, 230
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 117
Wolpert, Daniel, 47–48
World Laughter Day, 16
Wozniak, Steve, 94
Wurtzel, Elizabeth: Prozac Nation, 12
Wurzelbacher, Samuel Joseph (“Joe the plumber”), 83–84
Y
Yap, Andy, 73–74
Z
Zwaan, Rolf, 4–5
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