Moral foundations and political differences

Very interesting TED lecture by Jonathan Haidt on what sort of moral foundations are universal across cultures, and how different political outlooks, liberal versus conservative, empathize these differently.
My comments and links to the lecture are here

Common regrets in 30s, 40s,....

(what follows is a reposting fom Quora, but related is my own blog post on regret HERE) 

QUORA :

Bradley Voytek, BA in psychology and PhD in neuroscience":

110 votes by Laura Copeland, Emily Altman, Monika Kothari, (more)

In 2011 there was a large, national survey of Americans across all age groups that looked at just this. The paper was called Regrets of the Typical American published by Roese and Morrison in Social Psychological and Personality Science.
http://spp.sagepub.com/content/2...

Here's the main finding, outlined by Vaughan Bell over on the Mind Hacks blog:
http://mindhacks.com/2011/03/27/...


 
complete post is HERE in Society & Psychology subblog)

don't regret regret

interesting talk on regret on TED (here)
Especially liked the idea of the 'ctrl-z' generation. Some thoughts on  are here

out of the blue or in the pink

The famous Hamley's toy store in London has decided to scrap its traditional separation of boys and girls toys and instead arrange the sections by type of toy. Apparently until now some floors were floral and pink for the 'girls stuff', and 'boys toys' were in their own levels , all noise and action.
Some comments and article links are in this new post in the Society & Psychology section