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How Do You Spell R-E-S-I-L-I-E-N-T?

This year’s 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee demonstrated how competition can help teach kids resilience. Not only was this winner Arvind Mahankai’s fourth attempt at the gold trophy, but it was a...

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Is It OK To Discriminate Against Obese People?

Imagine you’re reviewing applications from aspiring graduate students to decide who will and will not be admitted entrance to your exclusive program. Would you automatically exclude overweight...

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Jewish Mothers and Jewish Eggs

When my son Jack was born 19 years ago in London, my mother insisted I call an orthodox rabbi to organize his Bris—the Jewish circumcision ritual.“We aren’t even orthodox,” I explained to her. But she...

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Wisdom About Life from a US Prison Guard

My writing on this blog generally focuses on marriage problems and communication skills.  On a recent airplane fight, however, I sat next to Gloria (name changed to protect confidentiality), a tall,...

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Memory Medication: Today and Tomorrow

The recent announcement of a novel cognitive enhancer, J147, has generated excitement among patients and families affected by Alzheimer’s Disease, a devastating neurodegenerative dementia that affects...

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Ready to Release

"Your intellect may be confused but your emotions will never mislead you." ~Roger EbertAh, those pesky emotions! Doesn’t it feel like that sometimes? We all enjoy the positive emotions like love,...

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If Only... : Gender Differences in Sexual Regret

Sex is an inexhaustible source of good feelings such as pleasure, awe, and elation. But sex is also, equally, a potential source of negative emotions such as regret.In general, the feeling of regret is...

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Glorifying Bullying Bosses

An acquaintance mentioned to me that her boss was like a “Gordon Ramsay” who threw tantrums and belittled workers. “But, I guess he’s a good leader,” she added. I have to respectfully disagree with...

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Ageless Animals

Not all immortal beings come from Hollywood. In the same league as Peter Pan, Dracula and The Highlander, nature’s real-life examples of immortal beings include the turritopsis nutricula. This fairly...

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5 Good Reasons to Do a Formal Mid-Year Employee Evaluation

I suspect I can guess what many of you are thinking after reading the headline: “I strongly dislike doing these at the end of the year, so why would I ever want to do another one halfway through the...

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What to Do When You've Been Jilted

The typical young person nowadays is likely to enter into four or five serious relationships before settling down.  All those earlier relationships have come to an end, one way or the other. Sometimes,...

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Serial Killers at Ghost Ranch

Recently, I went on a psychological pilgrimage to an educational retreat center known as Ghost Ranch. It was here that the reclusive American artist Georgia O’Keeffe had led a solitary life. She’d...

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Welcome to the “Genetic Panopticon”

The Supreme Court ruled on Maryland v. King Monday in a split-party 5-to-4 decision, echoing national ambivalence, but ultimately determining that police can take DNA samples from people who are...

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What Makes You Who You Are?

Personality can be defined as a person’s pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving. All well and good, but what happens if we dig a little bit deeper? What is ‘a person’ and, more precisely, what does...

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The College Grad Comes Home

In his post,“Is Going Home After College Graduation the New Normal? No plans after graduation? Welcome to the club,” Thomas Plante, discusses the huge number of college grads who can’t get jobs and...

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Throwing Out the Baby with the Bath Water

Paul Bloom recently wrote an interesting essay in the New Yorker (5/20/2013) called “The Baby in the Well,” in which he suggested that desires for a more empathic society are misguided, and that in...

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College Students' Advice to Mom and Dad on How to Parent

College Confidential Part II: This is the second post in an ongoing series I'm writing in the hopes that it will start productive discussions between college students and their parents. I launched this...

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(Only) 72 Hours to Freedom

"I want to stop smoking, but I'm not ready yet.""I just wish I had the guts to get a divorce.""This job is killing me - I've got to get out of this place."Call it emotional inertia - the gap between...

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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Fear and Loathing in YNP

"Fear and intimidation are far more common in nature than we realised, with surprising consequences not just for animals but for the entire landscape"A recent essay by Ed Yong in New Scientist magazine...

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Your Psychic Pain

The link between social and physical pain. By Gary L. Wenk, Ph.D.

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