Read more mind stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/7449/mind.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:42:22 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/63850/the-power-of-negative-thinking.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDeliberate positive thinking—from Norman Vincent Peale to Stuart Smalley—has long been touted as a way to overcome feelings of worthlessness and self-doubt. But a new study suggests that repeating positive mantras may often backfire, making people with low self-esteem feel even worse about themselves. For many, it may...http://www.newser.com/story/63850/the-power-of-negative-thinking.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 08 Jul 2009 14:50:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63161/toyota-rolls-out-mind-controlled-wheelchair.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagToyota has unveiled research on a mind-controlled wheelchair that can read its user's thoughts much faster and more accurately than any previous efforts, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The chair's interface reads brainwave activity and responds to imagined hand and foot movements within 125 milliseconds with up to 95% accuracy,...http://www.newser.com/story/63161/toyota-rolls-out-mind-controlled-wheelchair.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 30 Jun 2009 3:57:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56986/think-hard-telekinetic-toys-on-their-way.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTwo companies are set to release toys this fall that kids can operate using only their minds—and that’s just the beginning of a telekinetic revolution, experts say. To use one toy, intrigued individuals wear a headset and concentrate on anything. The toy senses the brain’s electrical activity and uses...http://www.newser.com/story/56986/think-hard-telekinetic-toys-on-their-way.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 23 Apr 2009 12:24:20 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/51460/darwin-skeptics-separate-mind-from-gray-matter.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTo undermine Darwinian theories about the emergence of life, skeptics have a new weapon in mind: the brain, NPR reports. They’re challenging the notion that a cluster of cells could produce such high-level mental processes as consciousness and free will. “It doesn’t hang together,” says one neurosurgeon, who argues that...http://www.newser.com/story/51460/darwin-skeptics-separate-mind-from-gray-matter.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 21 Feb 2009 18:24:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43073/jacko-needed-350k-mind-guru.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe sheikh who is suing Michael Jackson says he spent nearly $350,000 on a brain guru for the star, the New York Daily News reports. Mind-mapping and motivational guru Tony Buzan spent one week with the King of Pop in an effort to unlock his creativity, thus allowing him...http://www.newser.com/story/43073/jacko-needed-350k-mind-guru.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 19 Nov 2008 12:19:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/39159/lack-of-control-breeds-superstition.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSuperstitions and conspiracy theories all boil down to control issues, a new study says. When subjects in a University of Texas test were made to feel out of control, they saw more patterns that did not exist—whether images in a fuzzy picture or links between unconnected actions. Which is...http://www.newser.com/story/39159/lack-of-control-breeds-superstition.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 05 Oct 2008 10:35:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/20855/mind-reading-edges-closer-to-reality.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMind-reading has taken a step toward possibility with a new computer that can decode brain activity to determine what a person is looking at with up to 90% accuracy, the Independent reports. With improvements, the technology could be able to reconstruct any image a person could conjure up—and someday,...http://www.newser.com/story/20855/mind-reading-edges-closer-to-reality.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 06 Mar 2008 3:30:47 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/16501/top-10-mysteries-of-the-mind.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDebated for centuries, the human mind still holds a mystery or two in modern times. Here are LiveScience's top 10: Consciousness. Still the biggest human puzzle since Socrates. Cryonics. Can gray matter be revived from a 320-degree deep freeze? Aging. An unappreciated benefit, or simply cell decay with no purpose?...http://www.newser.com/story/16501/top-10-mysteries-of-the-mind.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 19 Jan 2008 11:49:48 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/5047/the-mind-thinks-more-than-it-knows.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAfter just handling a stranger’s coffee, people make subconscious judgments about personality, psychologists say. Asked to hold a lab assistant’s cup of hot or iced coffee, Yale students associated cold drinkers with selfish personalities, the Times reports. The experiment is part of a body of research that leads to the...http://www.newser.com/story/5047/the-mind-thinks-more-than-it-knows.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 31 Jul 2007 15:46:37 CDT