[Buddha-l] Buddhism and Psychology research

[W. Codling]

  Experience tells me that anything that results in a less ambivalent 
relationship with life's generalities is going to be an asset.  It has 
long been known that any surrender of personal options causes a feeling 
of empowerment.  So it is not surprising that both innocent and 
nefarious are associated with similar effects on the parameters used to 
measure 'strength' or efficacy.  There is a similar dyad at work in the 
perceptions about others; agency and experience.  Even as psychological 
research findings lead researchers to reduce complex processes to dyadic 
relationship it comes as no revelation to the Buddhist world.  This 
dyadic analysis is inherent to the very definition of the middle way.

On 9/1/2010 2:21 PM, Dan Lusthaus wrote:
> Denizens,
>
> How does current research in psychology dovetail with Buddhism? Here are two
> examples:
> http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/04/strength-in-naughty-or-nice/
>
> http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/02/what-does-it-mean-to-have-a-mind-maybe-more-than-you-think/