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Here are a couple that I have used in the past:  

·         Mind Habits –  this is interesting site that is based on the idea that certain psychological responses can be conditioned by game play.  The site has several games which teach people to focus on the positive as opposed to the negative.  It raises some interesting questions. Should we be training people this way? Are the games any good?  What www.mindhabits.com

·         Change Blindness: This is a fun and simple classic from the world of psychology.  Watch the video first then run it with your students  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4&feature=related

·         Emotional recognition:  This is a nutty idea that I’ve had in the past. I still haven’t had the chance to run it.

·         First start off with a basic facial emotion recognition game:

·         http://www.do2learn.com/games/feelingsgame/index.htm

·         Have students test themselves on the recognition of emotions. Have students learn how to make the expressions – have a student volunteer to make the emotional faces and see if the other students can guess what emotion they are doing (perhaps we can find good drama games that do this even better?)Can you recognize Human emotions? (Here are some additional resources)

·         http://www.face-and-emotion.com/dataface/general/guide.jsp 

·         http://www.emotionalcompetency.com/recognizing.htm

·         After we test animal emotions have students try to recognize the emotions being felt by monkeys in the following pictures: http://www.paulkopeikingallery.com/artists/greenberg/index2.htm

·         Do humans and monkeys have similar facial emotion features? - We can go lots of places from here (:

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