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About Me

Location:
Israel, Jerusalem
Current organization:
HUJI
Current role:
Psychobiology Student
Gender:
Female
Areas of expertise:
psychology, Biology - cognition and behaviour , Genetics, Brain / behavior
I am:
Student
Languages:
Hebrew, Arabic
Universities:
HUJI
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  • A comment on Talk: Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology

    Jan 12 2012: As Mr. Berry mentioned - About a semester's work squeezed into 9 minutes. Too bad we didn't have these animations 2 years ago :)

    Amazing!

  • A reply on Conversation: Can we really become happier? Happier ourselves? Can we create happier places to work? Or even happier societies?

    Jan 11 2012: Maybe the basic quality of happiness is common. But the implementation of it comes in a lot of different forms... You can surely isolate factors that would probably cause discomfort in the workplace but eliminating those would not necessarily mean happy employees.

  • A comment on Conversation: Can we really become happier? Happier ourselves? Can we create happier places to work? Or even happier societies?

    Jan 11 2012: I don't think you can do much to create a happier organisation mainly because each one of us defines happiness in a very different way. Maybe if it's a small organisation you can keep track of your employees preferences, goals and expectations, but as a society.. I'm not too sure what can be done. We should not forget that people themselves don't know exactly what makes them happy, in most cases.

    On a different pessimistic note, I think (sadly) a lot of people would find money as a source of satisfaction and happiness. Most of them don't think one step ahead regarding what they would do with this money. You could potentially put it to test by making people believe they'd won an amount of money and measure their happiness. I think we'd find that once the primary enthusiasm is gone - we're not in any way happier.

    And...Lastly, I recommend Frankl's book: "Man's search for meaning" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning) as a source of information regarding one man's path to happiness....

    Shahar.

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