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This article is useful for my research because it highlights how slow and mindful breathing can help children calm down during stressful situations. It explains that deep breathing activates the parasympathetic nervous system reducing heart rate and promoting relaxation. The article also emphasizes that children often need guidance to practice
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This article is useful for my research because it explores how different shapes particularly curves versus sharp angles and how they can evoke specific emotional responses. It explains that curves are often associated with feelings of safety, calmness, and comfort. On the flip side sharp angles can elicit tension or
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Progress Pocket is a data driven personalized plan for users to create healthier financial behaviors. The goal of this system is to analyze the current spending and saving patterns of the users and create a tailored plan to work towards their financial goals. Rather then just simply stating that you
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“Using nudging, financial technology (fintech) apps like Acorns, Robinhood, and YNAB (You Need a Budget) try to affect saving, investment, and budgeting habits. By presenting images of long-term savings or compounding interest, these platforms sometimes incorporate nudges based on hyperbolic discounting, therefore motivating users to give long-term advantages
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Numerous studies have shown that setting a specific difficult goal leads to significant increases in employee productivity (Locke & Latham, 1984). For example, loggers cut more trees (Latham & Kinne, 1974; Latham & Yukl, 1975), and unionized truck drivers increased the logs loaded on their trucks from 60% to 90%
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Intrinsic goals were found to include personal growth, health and wellness, developing stronger ties in one's relationships and with one's community, and other goals more directly aligned with the satisfaction of basic psychological needs. Extrinsic goals included the pursuit of materialistic gain (such as wealth), physical
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Their ability to be instantly productive in achieving the goal they wanted to accomplish would immediately be thwarted because they would first have to learn how to use the website or app. Every task that they'd want to accomplish would require some degree of exploration to find what
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Related to this, one of the strongest and most consistent findings in the goal-setting literature is that people tend to show greater progress when they act towards more difficult goals compared with easier ones (Locke & Latham, 2002; Wiese, 2007). For instance, if I set myself the goal of
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Early on in this project, the interest in bilateral stimulation was at the forefront of my mind. This was the first avenue that I explored in my research and I feel like my sketches of this concept fail to grasp the direction in my head. After all, I am mostly
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Have you ever seen a celebrity interview and noticed how someone's knee won't stop bouncing, but then a friend or co-star provides a gentle, friendly, discrete touch, and the bouncing stops, the celebrity breathes, and the whole world barely noticed. What about how a hand
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How are brain waves being used to better understand design and what could the future potentially look like? In a study run by Google in partnership with Johns Hopkins University, a wristband was used to monitor biometrics of participants while they experience differently designed spaces. " Before entering the interactive
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In an article posted by Clinical Trials Arena (2025), they claim that we are drastically closer to brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, than we think. " Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) represent a groundbreaking technology that establishes a direct communication pathway between the brain’s electrical activity and external devices, such