Tag: Deirdre Barrett
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Nation & World
The quote machine
Powered by Harvard conversations, an ever-expanding collection of arguments, insights, reactions, and reflections.
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Nation & World
When you dream of feeling naked in public — without a mask
The data gathered by Deirdre Barrett shines a light on how our subconscious is grappling with a time like no other.
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Nation & World
What pandemic dreams may come
Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor of Psychology Deirdre Barrett created an online survey to collect dreams of people during the pandemic.
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Nation & World
Dream saga of WWII
As part of a project by Professor Deirdre Barrett to resurrect a study started in 1940, a group of Harvard undergraduates probed the dreams of British officers captured early in World War II and held in a German prison camp.
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Nation & World
Playing on our instincts
Assistant clinical professor of psychology Deirdre Barrett says that many of today’s ills come from intentional overstimulation of natural human impulses, giving people hard-to-resist appetites for everything from fighting to sex to unhealthy foods.
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Getting to obesity’s bottom line
Hunter-gatherer instincts set loose in a world of modern food abundance are at the root of today’s obesity crisis, according to a Harvard psychologist.
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