Kevin in Alaska

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Psychologist (he/him)

Journal article abstract: Normative, Gain and Hedonic Goal Frames Guiding Environmental Behavior Siegwart Lindenberg* and Linda Steg University of Groningen This article discusses new developments about goal-dependent framing and mul- tiple goal frames (sometimes also called "multiple motives"), which are highly relevant for understanding environmental behavior. We introduce goal-framing theory, which postulates that goals "frame" the way people process information and act upon it. Three goal frames are distinguished: a hedonic, gain, and nor- mative goal frame. In general, multiple goals are active at any given time, which may (or may not) be compatible; that is, the strength of the focal goal may be in- fluenced by other goals that are in the background. Based on an extensive review of studies in environmental psychology, we suggest those conditions under which each goal frame may be dominant in influencing environmental behavior. In the environmental context, normative goal frames imply acting pro-environmentally, while gain and hedonic goal frames often result in not acting in an environmentally sound manner. Next, we argue that pro-environmental behavior may be promoted by strengthening normative goals or by making gain and hedonic goals less incom- patible with normative goals. Finally, based on goal-framing theory, we suggest questions to be addressed in future research.
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X post from @HouseGOP, 1/19/26: Today we celebrate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader who shared those immortal words: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
"A primary reason why most adults in industrial societies do not remember their dreams is that they have no socially and emotionally supportive contexts in which to do so. My experience of more than twenty years is that as soon as such a context is created, then even the most stubborn failure to recall dreams is usually overcome." Jeremy Taylor, The Wisdom of Your Dreams, 2009
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"Throughout this historic year, we rejoice in the triumph of the American spirit and rededicate ourselves to the cause of liberty and justice for all," writes Trump. "In special honor of 250 glorious years of American independence and on the weekend of Rededicate 250 — a national jubilee of prayer, praise, and thanksgiving - Jewish Americans are encouraged to observe a national Sabbath." Rededicate 250 is a Christian gathering in Washington on Sunday, May 17, that will be attended by GOP officials and prominent Christian clergy.
Book cover: White Rage by Carol Anderson
Email from Tom Pittman at Identity: To our patients, supporters, partners, and broader LGBTQ A2S+ community, It is with a heavy heart that I write to share that Identity is closing. In-person care will continue through the end of this week. Telehealth care will continue through May 1. After May 1, our providers will continue supporting patients with refills and other critical transition needs to help ensure continuity of care during this process. May 15 will be Identity's final day of service.
The moon in eclipse as photographed by the Artemis II crew
Masculinity as homophobia: Fear, shame and silence in the construction of gender identity. Kimmel, M. S. (1997). Masculinity as homophobia: Fear, shame and silence in the construction of gender identity. In M. M. Gergen & S. N. Davis (Eds.), Toward a new psychology of gender (pp. 223-242). Taylor & Frances/Routledge.
HARPERS MAGAZINE July 2016 Issue The Ideology of Isolation by Rebecca Solnit If you boil the strange soup of contemporary right-wing ideology down to a sort of bouillon cube, you find the idea that things are not connected to other things, that people are not connected to other people, and that they are all better off unconnected. The core values are individual freedom and individual responsibility: yourself for yourself on your own. Out of this Glorious Disconnect comes all sorts of illogical thinking. Taken to its conclusion, this worldview dictates that even facts are freestanding items that the self-made man can manufacture for use as he sees fit. This is the modern ideology we still call conservative, though it is really a sort of loopy libertarianism that inverts some of the milder propositions of earlier conservative thinkers. "There is no such thing as society," Margaret Thatcher said in 1987. The rest of her famous remark is less frequently quoted: There is [a] living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate.
Two-page spread from The Lorax. A factory labeled THNEEDS churns out smoke. I meant no harm. I most truly did not. But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got. I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads. I biggered my wagons. I biggered the loads of the Thneeds I shipped out. I was shipping them forth to the South! To the East! To the West! To the North! I went right on biggering ... selling more Thneeds. And I biggered my money, which everyone needs.
In short, we, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation-if we are really, that is, to achieve our identity, our maturity, as men and women. To create one nation has proved to be a hideously difficult task; there is certainly no need now to create two, one black and one white. But white men with far more political power than that possessed by the Nation of Islam movement have been advocating exactly this, in effect, for genera-tions.
Myths about Passover by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (excerpt) A lot of literalist religious perspectives, both Jewish and Christian, presume that the Exodus story is a faithful recording of historical fact. But the historical accuracy of the Exodus is hotly debated among scholars. Archeologists and Egyptologists have never found evidence that could be directly connected to Israelites' enslavement or departure, or of a large group of people-600,000 men, plus women and children—wandering the Sinai Peninsula for 40 years. Regardless, some truths are deeper than history: The story of enslavement and liberation is a deep, indelible facet of Jewish theology. And a mature faith can hold an expansive understanding of God and holy texts that embraces the ways this story—no matter whether it happened historically—helps us see who we are and the nature of our obligations to those oppressed today.
Is humanity forming en-masse? for lo, tyrants tremble, crowns grow dim, The earth, restive, confronts a new era, perhaps a general divine war, No one knows what will happen next, such portents fill the days and nights; Years prophetical! the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it, is full of phantoms, Unborn deeds, things soon to be, project their shapes around me, This incredible rush and heat, this strange ecstatic fever of dreams O years! Your dreams O years, how they penetrate through me! (I know not whether I sleep or wake;) The perform'd America and Europe grow dim, retiring in shadow behind me, The unperform'd, more gigantic than ever, advance, advance upon me.
Text message screenshot: Not for nothing, but Spanberger looks like who you would cast to play the governor of the Atlantic territories in civil war 2
Screenshot of the first page of a scientific article: The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science
Quote tweet from Chuck Schumer, quoting Mike Lee. Lee posting photo of masked Mexican cartel members: Cartel hitmen wear masks. Leftists aren’t complaining. Schumer: Yes. Cartel hitmen wear masks. That’s why ICE shouldn’t.
O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath— America will be!
COMPLEX Robert Pattinson Says He Only Tried Therapy Once: 'The Therapist Asked Me If I Was on Drugs'
Join the Dream Group at the PSC Explore the healing power and wisdom of your dreams with a supportive confidential group The UAA Psychological Service Center (PSC) invites you to join a free weekly in-person group where members discuss the meaning of their dreams The Dream Group meets on Thursdays at 3-4 pm in the Social Sciences Building Call the PSC at 907-786-1795 and ask about the Dream Group if you would like more information, or if you are interested in joining. All PSC services are supervised by a licensed psychologist.
Ann Richards with red laser eyes
Many Americans horrified by The Homeland's agents rampaging through whole communities, seizing children, perp-walking half-naked old men, and detaining whoever they feel like, with or without charges, all while enjoying "absolute immunity" have settled on an interesting term: "eccupation." This designation is as correct as it is unoriginal—a fact more Americans would do well to remember. ICE has contracted surveillance tools that, according to Joseph Cox at 404 Media, allow it to "track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer." These tools, reportedly deployed across Minneapolis, were not created in America, but in Israel, still another Homeland, enforcing the longest "occupation" in modern history. Thus, the citizens of Minnesota have, as American taxpayers, subsidized an occupation overseas that is effectively a laboratory for their own.
Book cover: White Rage by Carol Anderson
Book cover: White Rage by Carol Anderson
Recovering White American Antiracist History Jessie Daniel Ames (1883-1972) Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) John Brown (1800-1859) Marilyn Buck (1947-2010) Edgar Chandler (1904-1988) Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) F.M.B. "Marsh" Cook (d. 1890) Prudence Crandall (1803-1890) Jonathan Myrick Daniels (1939-1965) Virginia Foster Durr (1903-1999) Jane Eliot (b. 1933) Bob Fletcher (1911-2013) William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) Joseph Gelders (1898-1950) Andrew Goodman (1943-1964) Sarah Moore Grimke (1792-1873) Angelina Emily Grimke (1805-1879) Heather Heyer (1985-2017) Rachelle Horowitz (b. 1942) Bruce Klunder (1937-1964) Benjamin Lay (1682-1759) Viola Liuzzo (1925-1965) Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1802-1837) Richard Loving (1933-1975) William Lewis Moore (1927-1963) Juliette Hampton Morgan (1914-1957) Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (b. 1941) Peter George Norman (1942-2006) Mary White Ovington (1865-1951) Theodore Parker (1810-1860) Joachim Prinz (1902-1998) James Reeb (1927-1965) Michael Henry Schwerner (1939-1964) Mab Segrest (b. 1949) Lillian Smith (1897-1966) Silas Soule (1838-1865) Laura Towne (1825-1901) Julius Waties Waring (1880-1968) James Zwerg (b. 1939)
King knew that tension fostered by nonviolent protest often provokes from oppressive systems the very reactions that protesters seek to dramatize. The predictable backlash to nonviolent direct action is a strategic advantage for protesters, drawing attention to the conditions in need of change, but only when protesters do not retaliate and return violence with violence. Quoting Gandhi, King (1958) said, "suffering is infinitely more powerful than the law of the jungle for converting the opponent and opening his ears which are otherwise shut to the voice of reason" (p. 92).
Troopers said they determined that Rexford was experiencing "mental health issues" and expressed a desired to harm himself after speaking with present family members and Rexford. As troopers discussed the situation with Rexford, he suddenly went into the kitchen, grabbed a knife and charged at a trooper with the weapon, officials said. Multiple troopers then shot and killed Rexford, according to the statement. Another man inside the home was seriously injured by the gunfire, according to troopers.
Hanukkah menorah covered in melted multicolored candle wax
Menorah on night 8 of Hanukkah
Menorah on night 7 of Hanukkah
All this causes great trouble for the ideology of isolation. It interferes with the right to maximum individual freedom, a freedom not to be bothered by others' needs.
Menorah on night 6 of Hanukkah
Menorah on night 5 of Hanukkah
Menorah on night 4 of Hanukkah
Menorah on night 3 of Hanukkah
Values & Vision We Believe In... • Democracy • Transparency • A commitment to community care & wellbeing of all • Anti-corruption • Ordinary Alaskans before profit / extraction • Skillful communication • Decolonizing the political processes • Meaningful community • Mutual aid and political hard work going hand in hand • Continuous improvement & course correction • Having fun
Menorah on night 2 of Hanukkah
Menorah on the first night of Hanukkah