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Restraint of Tongue and Pen
The morning is always wiser than the evening ~ Russian proverb Responding to a situation is always better than reacting to it. When we react to anything, it is usually with the first thought, word, or...
View ArticleHow Rescuers are Different From Bystanders
Samuel and Paul Oliner’s research on rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe complements the work done by Eva Fogelman (see my previous post). They questioned over 400 non-Jewish Germans who at great...
View ArticleCan’t-Miss Books for Spring and Summer
In December, I wrote about a dozen exciting business books that debut this year. In the past three months, readers have asked what’s coming next. After reading a series of gems, and hearing the buzz...
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She's too hot to handle
Spike Jonze won this year’s Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for “Her,” a film set in a time slightly in the future when humans are developing emotional feelings for their operating systems....
View ArticleLiposuction can make you smarter
A recent epidemiological study concluded that be the year 2050 the number of overweight or obese Americans would increase to above fifty percent. This statistic is alarming because obesity produces...
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Stuck in a Rut? 5 Mind-Changing Strategies to Get You Out
Most of us will feel, at one point or another, that life has turned into a sojourn on a hamster wheel and there doesn’t seem to be a way off. At these moments, it’s important to recognize that human...
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Addictive Foods:
How do you deal with the foods that get you in trouble? You know, the ones you love and can’t picture giving up…..the ones, at the same time, you can eat by the bag- or pan-ful. This becomes one of the...
View ArticleWhat Mocking One-Hit Wonders Tells Us about Ourselves
I grew up during the 80’s, when songs like Tony Basil's “Mickey,” the Knack's “My Sharona” and Nena's “99 Luftballoons” dominated the Top 40 charts. While these songs were embraced as part of the...
View ArticleEight Patterns of Problem Drinking: Do You See Yourself?
Think back on February: what was the pattern of your drinking or the drinking of a person you love? Five drinks on weekend nights, or sucking back a six-pack with a side order of self-loathing every...
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Shibboleths, Social Bonds, and Splinter Groups
Language Quiz Few things reveal more about you than the way you talk. For experts on dialects a few diagnostic clues from a person’s speech can often enable them to pinpoint that...
View ArticleAdvice to Dear Abby
Abby might have asked for advice from someone who knows. I’m a sucker for advice columns. I love Dear Prudie on Slate, not only for her wise and balanced advice but for the totally off-the-wall things...
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The Personality Profile that Makes Leaders Make War
World leaders who make war tend to have a particular personality profile called “high need for power”. American presidents who show this are, throughout history, more likely to take their countries...
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Behind enema lines
Klismaphilia – a term coined by Dr Joanne Denko in the reporting of two case studies early 1970s (‘klisma’ is the Greek word for ‘enema’) – is a very unusual variant in sexual expression in which an...
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The Psychology of War
Read any book about the history of the World and it’s likely that you’ll be left with one overriding impression: that human beings find it impossible to live in peace with one another. And just when...
View Article"Winter Rage," Mindfulness, and the Gift of the Present
There is a hilarious post on NPR about the “stages of winter rage” (you can view it here) . It is enjoying a happy jaunt around Facebook via shares punctuated by commiseration. Recently, I commented,...
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Sex with a Porn-Wired Man
Does your boyfriend or husband watch too much porn? Is it affecting your sex life? Could be..............Hollywood’s answer to this everyday problem is Don Jon (2013) starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt....
View ArticleStudy: Inside the Brains of Child Prodigies
At age 6, Mozart performed at the court of the Prince-elect Maximilian II of Bavaria. At age 8, Joy Foster represented Jamaica in table tennis at the Caribbean championships in Trinidad. What do the...
View ArticleSelf-Labeling Addiction as Disease: The Process in the Media
Peter Shumlin, governor of Vermont, recently devoted his entire State of the State Message to what he said was "a full-blown heroin crisis" gripping Vermont. We are in the midst of our latest in a...
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