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The Brain Works Through "Openness" to Boost Creativity
What does creative thought look like in the brain? With the willing brains of creative people and tools like fMRI that can look inside these brains in real-time, you'd think it would an easy question...
View ArticleBeing "Off Duty" as a Psychologist
There are many horrors associated with flying economy, especially long-haul. The lack of space, the food, the queues. But surely the worst is the proximity to strangers. To endure 12 hours mere inches...
View ArticleHow Accurate are People’s Beliefs About Psychology?
There are still philosophers and others who think that the psychological beliefs of most ordinary people are reasonably accurate. Armchair philosophers, including analytic ones and phenomenologists,...
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Soaring With Mental Illness
The Paralympic Games, involving athletes with a range of physical and intellectual disabilities, began this week in Sochi. Grown from a small competition of British World War II veterans in 1948, the...
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Is This Real Life? Well, It's Your Choice
Heading out to the Tel-Aviv airport this morning is daunting. I have to help my kids get ready for school and at the same time go over my packing checklist and handle a problem with my hotel...
View ArticleThe Real Selfie
Review of Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love. By Simon Blackburn. Princeton University Press. 209 pp. $24.95.Confessing that self-love possessed “all my soul and all my every part,”...
View ArticleLet Go of the Shroud Part II
Many believe that the Shroud of Turin is the burial cloth of Christ. Last time we saw why the Shroud is obviously fake because it’s not biblical, indicative of a Jewish burial or a first century...
View ArticleInterpretations Are Just Opinions
Seems that from the beginning of time, people have been in search of "truth"—big truths, little truths, you name it. Situations and objects are observed (and perhaps studied to some extent), ideas or...
View ArticleBrain Injury Awareness: Treatment and the Insurance Issue
In my January 30th, blog I wrote about the various symptoms that occur as a result of a brain injury. During Brain Injury Awareness Month, it is especially important to know that for every symptom,...
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Why Frozen is Obviously about Lesbians
Let's get this out in the open, this post will explain once and for why Disney’s Frozen is about the pro-Lesbian agenda. Don’t know what I’m talking about? To my knowledge the ruckus started last month...
View ArticleHow Our Lives Have Come Google-ized
There is more to life than convenience and quick answers. Sometimes the slow route to knowledge is more interesting. We hardly ever ask strangers the way anymore, reducing our opportunity for chance...
View ArticleLucky Charms - Keep 'Em Handy
Lucky Charms—Keep ‘Em HandyLucky charms really do improve our performance - so don't toss out that shamrock at midnight on March 17. Damisch, Stoberock, and Mussweiler published a study examining how...
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De-Stress on Demand
The stress stats are screaming at us. They may even be adding stress for some, but they like stress are very real.1.) 80% of Dr. visits are stress related2.) More than half of all deaths result from...
View ArticleWhy We Tolerate Bullying, Hazing, and Abuse
Why is bullying in schools and in the workplace an ongoing problem? How about hazing in team sports? What about instances of physical and sexual abuse? Why don’t people intervene?These are big problems...
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The Enraged Heart
Does anger kill?For thousands of years the cultural answer was yes. Rage provokes killing - and often leads to the death of the enraged. But what happens in modern life?Therein's a tale involving...
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Wake Up 15 Minutes Earlier
I’m writing my next book, Before and After, about how we make and break habits–an issue very relevant to happiness. Each week, I post a before-and-after story submitted by a reader, about how he or...
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Making College the Right Kind of Sexy
College is sexy. On TV, in the movies, and on Facebook, college is defined by parties, spring break, and a non-stop social scene.But, given the incredible cost of college, shouldn’t students be turned...
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Highly Recommended: Guy Winch’s Book, “Emotional First Aid”
I was first introduced to Guy Winch through his popular blog at Psychology Today. His writing resonates with me because it’s practical, whether he’s explaining how to make an effective apology (here)...
View ArticleLet Go of The Shroud Part III
In the first entry we saw why the Shroud is obviously a fake. In the second entry, we saw that the evidence both for and against the Shroud supports the “fake” hypothesis and we even discovered how the...
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Brain Activity May Explain Why Videos Go Viral
A few weeks ago, I awoke in the middle of the night, not from a nightmare or indigestion, but from an idea that I wanted to share with a friend. At 3am, I booted the computer and started drafting an...
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