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Why Would Bad Information Lead To Better Results?
There are some truly strange arguments made in the psychological literature from time to time. Some might even be so bold as to call that frequency “often”, while others might dismiss the field of...
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Tough Choice
Why an excess of options leaves us increasingly unhappy with the decisions we make.
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Reading the Mind in Waist/hip Ratios: A Paradox Resolved
One of the things that gives me the greatest confidence in the diametric model of cognition is the way that it makes sense of what have so far seemed like insoluble paradoxes relating to intelligence...
View ArticleThe Fetishistic Grammarian
When measured by the number of responses, the most popular Harvard Business Review blog for 2012 was “I won’t hire people who use poor grammar. Here’s why” by Kyle Wiens. He advocates a...
View ArticleMorality Is Universal but Also Individual
Recognizing the built-in, universal nature of morality doesn't explain all of ethics. You aren't like anyone who has ever existed, or exists today or will exist tomorrow. This is true for two reasons....
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Simulation Stimulation
In the UK last year, the Daily Mail newspaper published a story about Facebook introducing gambling services and the potential effect on children and adolescents. The Mail reported that the world’s...
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Sex, Narcissism & Politics
The Anthony Weiner sex and twitter case is not yet a story of divorce. It is a story of humanity. Mr. Weiner’s marriage will likely suffer, but hopefully, he and his wife will overcome this terrible...
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A Little Bit At a Time
Gradually...You can often get to where you want to go. You just get there little bit by a little bit. So it seems to work with exercise.Gretchen Reynolds did a nice short review in the July 9th, New...
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Controlling Perfectionists in the Workplace
Do you dread going to work on Mondays but not because of your job, but because of your boss or co-workers or other annoying people you have to work with? If you’ve ever had the misfortune of working...
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Harnessing the Power of Medical Intuition
In this Boston Globe health piece, Dr. Suzanne Koven writes about intuition, what she describes as “The feeling of knowing something you don’t have an apparent reason to know.”In this case, she wrote...
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Ethical Wisdom For Friends
Friendships are the great unexplored love relationships in most of our lives. We pay attention to romance, we attend closely to family, but we often forget the complexity -- and urgency -- of caring...
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A Not-To-Do List for the Chronically Ill
I love To-Do lists. I depended on them when I was working outside the home. I’ve depended them since my bed became my office. The one difference is that, pre-illness, I had fancy notepads and...
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Jesus' Cell Phone Found!
NBC science news report: Turkish archaeologists excavating an old church site have unearthed a stone chest which they claim contains a relic that may be part of the cross on which Jesus was...
View ArticleLiving and Loving after Intimate Betrayal
Three points about healing have become clear to me after thousands of hours of working with people who have suffered both common and unimaginable emotional pain. The first is that human beings have an...
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Vicarious Trauma and the Professional Interpreter
-- Reposted from the online magazine, "The Trauma & Mental Health Report"Imagine yourself in a situation where it is entirely your responsibility to ensure that someone else’s voice is heard....
View ArticleThe Role Reverser: Growing Up Too Soon
Adam had no joy in his voice. He answered my questions in a monotone, letting me know with every syllable how much he didn't want to be there. Adam's father Frank, did want him to be there. Adam's...
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Evolution Does Not Reward Selfish and Mean People
New research has found that our evolutionary biology does not reward selfish and mean people. Over the long run, cooperative ‘nice guys’ actually finish first. Michigan State University evolutionary...
View ArticleThe Truth About the Childless Life
Aashna, a single 43-year-old marketing director for an international jewelry designer, looked down at her glass of Cabernet Sauvignon with a familiar melancholy I've seen before. "I absolutely don't...
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Teams—the simple machines of modern business
When I was a kid, I sat glued to the television watching behind the scenes shows on the workings of industrial plants. I couldn’t get enough of watching a series of machines work in tandem to convert...
View ArticleWhy Rejection on Facebook Hurts as Much as in Real Life
Everywhere we turn in life we face a gauntlet of rejection. Our colleagues go to lunches without us, family members forget our birthdays, spouses rebuff our sexual advances, neighbors don’t invite us...
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