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"Thanks for Sharing" Nails It With Cross-Addictions
The recently released film Thanks for Sharing is an incredibly accurate portrayal of the ways in which many addicts struggle with more than one addictive substance or behavior. Frankly, there have been...
View ArticleAnger Management: What Works and What Doesn't
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. — Thomas JeffersonWhen angry count four; when very angry, swear. — Mark TwainAnger is an emotional response to a real or imagined...
View ArticleSocial Class and Bread
Consider, for a moment, the qualities of bread.Bread nourishes us—it's called the “staff of life.” So it makes sense that both bread and dough are slang for money, and that those who support their...
View ArticleDo Atheists Pray?
Do atheists and agnostics pray? Yes, indeedy. Quite a bit it turns out. Six percent of them pray every day, we’re told by the Pew Research Center. And 11 percent pray weekly or monthly.If no one is...
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Leadership Lessons (Seriously) from the Cowboys Cheerleaders
To help prepare myself for the NFL season, I recently watched an episode of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. To my surprise, it taught me as much about leadership as any single MBA lecture I ever...
View ArticleIs Science a Religion for Non-Believers?
It has long been argued that people utilize religion as a coping mechanism. Loss, uncertainty, and feelings of meaninglessness have all been linked to religiosity. When people are facing difficult life...
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A Big Family: Does Number of Sibs Impact Divorce Risk?
A recent study has found a surprising relationship between growing up with lots of siblings and succeeding as an adult in marriage. Why should family size impact how children will fare in their adult...
View ArticleThe Future of Women's Comedy: A TEDx Talk Reflection
The future of women's comedy will be greater than 140 characters.That was the first point I made at the TEDx Talk I gave last Saturday. Women’s comedy takes a long time. Most women’s humor is not...
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What Are the Effects of Children on Fathers?
Having kids can have a variety of impacts on fathers. Watching team sports on TV was one casualty I recall in the wake of having a newborn. Being put in a different tax category was another. And seeing...
View ArticleDissecting the Science of Selflessness
This has been an exciting month for me. My first book, What Makes a Hero?: The Surprising Science of Selflessness, has officially launched! It's been an incredible journey so far—one that unexpectedly...
View ArticleCancer and the Best Day
Easily six feet five and solid as an oak, he stands in the kitchen telling us his story as we prepare dinner for the current residents of Hope Lodge, a home away from home for cancer patients and their...
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I Told You So
Mike cringed inside. He stood waiting for the words he had heard so often in his life. "I told you so," his father said with a tight lip. His dad was furious, and Mike set his jaw, clenching his teeth....
View ArticlePerfectionism as a Roadblock to Productivity
Far from being a motivator for productivity, perfectionism (or more precisely, the byproducts of it) can be a debilitating pattern that inhibits healthy functioning.Though it’s driven many of the great...
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Meet Molly
Move over Mary (Pot), Lucy (LSD) and Aunt Nora (Cocaine) - there is a new girl in town and she's making her presence known! "Girls," meet Molly(MDMA). But just how “new” is Molly? Well, she’s actually...
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Weight Stigma in Schools: Q&A with Dr. Rebecca M. Puhl
Rebecca Puhl, Ph.D has been studying weight bias for over a decade and has published extensively on this topic. She is an editor of the book Weight Bias: Nature, Extent, and Remedies (Guilford Press,...
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Emotional Intimacy in Polyamorous Relationships
Almost every time I speak to a general-public audience about my research on polyamory, someone eventually asks if poly people’s desire for multiple partners means that they don’t really love each...
View ArticleCulture, Mind, and Genius
In the previous post I wrote that the essential function of the thinking self is to assure the symbolic process on the collective level. In distinction to the other two processes constituting the mind,...
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Tales of Unbelievable Coincidences: It’s a Small World!
Many readers have undoubtedly heard of the six degrees of separation concept (related to the Small-World Phenomenon), namely that any two people on Earth (short of those belonging to closed off or...
View ArticleOn Not Wanting to be a Mom
I took a class on how to care for children when I was eleven years old. We practiced putting diapers on baby dolls, learned how to feed babies, and talked about how to entertain toddlers and older...
View ArticleMourning a Stranger
I have a pen pal. I have a few, actually, but this one has been a faithful correspondent for longer than any of the others. She and I met right after I had graduated college, when she was still a...
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