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Ending Academic Apartheid
In choosing the academic life, most teachers expect to be part of a community committed to freedom, fairness, and justice. It’s the rare academic who does not take pride in belonging to an honorable...
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Gift-Giving in Romantic Relationships
Weekends spent wandering the malls, hours upon hours spent clicking through websites… the start and end of the holiday season is typically marked by the searching, buying, and ultimately receiving of...
View ArticleThe Gift of Disassociation
There is a pain so utter that it swallows substance upThen covers the abyss with trance—So memory can step around—across—upon itAs one within a swoon goes safely where an open-eye would drop him——Bone...
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The Mysterious Neuroscience of Learning Automatic Skills
Can you type "The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog” without looking at the keyboard? A new study conducted by a team of cognitive psychologists at Vanderbilt and Kobe universities has found...
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Sex, Vulnerability, and Power
If I thought I was treading difficult territory when starting to write about money, writing about sex feels even more risky. It's even more private, in some ways more charged, and equally considered...
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Holiday Travel and Fear of Flying
My friend R.O. hates to fly. And she’s one of the bravest people I know – as an oncologist she helps patients face fear of death, as a mom, she shows her daughters women can do anything they set their...
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Do not think of the name of this object: ∆
New research is beginning to reveal that, though action inclinations can be suppressed behaviorally, they often cannot be suppressed mentally (Bargh & Morsella, 2008, Perspectives on Psychological...
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Mandela - The Power of Choosing Optimism Over Despair
“Prison and the authorities conspired to rob each man of his dignity. In and of itself, that assured that I would survive, for any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose...
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Hate Exercise? Love Having Sex? You're in for Some Good News
The act of having sex can, for many people, involve considerable physical exertion. However, you probably don’t seriously consider swapping your gym workout for a comparable amount of time having sex....
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How Does Daydreaming Help Form Long Lasting Memories?
Researchers in Germany have found that when the human brain is in a resting state—like daydreaming or mind wandering—that patterns of neuronal activity which represent past events reappear...
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Keeping Expectant Mothers Guessing
Years ago, a friend called by and asked us to look after her two children while she rushed into hospital to give birth. Labour pains had begun four weeks before her “due date”. Ironically, she is a...
View ArticleFour Ways to Help Your Child Be More Truthful
When children and teens tell me why they lie to their parents, it is usually that they feel “caught”, are trying to avoid punishment, or feel threatened. Often lying is a sign of low self-worth....
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Buy toys with a shelf life
Every time I go on a frantic search for that one extra AAA battery to make the kids’ newest toy operate, I realize how much plastic occupies our house. We have plastic drums, Legos, dolls, cars, action...
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Ethnocentrism Dies Easily en France
A few months ago I was contacted by Lauren Begue, a social psychologist who is a professor at the University of Grenoble in France. He had read my book “Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life” and made...
View ArticleThe Charismatic Appeal of Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was a rewarding example and great source of inspiration for anyone who has anything to do with leadership, from politicians to CEOs and journalists to researchers. Scientists have long...
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Love after 50
Ann, an attractive, vivacious sixty- something woman smiled as she came into my office.“Where shall I sit?” She asked.“Anywhere you’d like,” I smiled back.She chose the seat on the sofa closest to me....
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To Give or not to Give? Unwrapping Issues of Gifts at Work
This December, I'm dedicating my blogs to the sometimes prickly issues associated with the holiday season at work. In this first post, you'll get a few ideas about workplace gift giving. Next, I'll...
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Level headed
Recent empirical research studies suggest that children and adolescents access online gambling activities using digital devices such as personal computers, laptops, smartphones, and other portable...
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