"The "real world" is a construct, and some peculiarities of scientific thought become more intelligible when this fact is recognized ... Einstein himself in 1926 told Heisenberg it was nonsense to found a theory on observable facts alone, saying "In reality the very opposite happens. It is theory which decides what we can observe." "

D. O. Hebb

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European positive psychology conference in Copenhagen: Barbara Fredrickson 'How positive emotions work, and why' (fifth post)

4th July 2010

I was at the 5th European Conference on Positive Psychology last month. I wrote a series of four blog posts about it, but in the second I commented "I'm running out of time for this blog post. The second talk was also great - "How positive emotions work, and why" …

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