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Kids Want to Learn About Kinds, Rather Than Individuals
By the time you are an adult, you know a lot about the world. You know that dogs bark, that computers allow you to communicate with people around the planet, that airplanes fly you from city to city,...
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Should You “Evict” Your Child’s Imaginary Friend?
When I discussed imaginary friends a few years ago, one father shared his experience:"We'll put him to bed and he'll be quiet. When we get back downstairs he'll start talking, normal stuff, about our...
View ArticleWe're at a Watershed on Addiction
We are now engaged in a great civil war over whether addiction is an uncontrollable scourge, or something that grows from within society and can be curtailed and remedied. The former position, as...
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How Video Games Can Help Us Achieve Mindfulness
I’ve become a focus junkie. If I see something written in a legit publication about techniques or technologies to improve mental focus, I freebase it—mainly because the forces draining focus are...
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Early Attachment: Leaving its Mark Across the Lifespan
Attachments are the bonds that, early on in life, develop between a child and caregiver. The nature of these bonds depends on the caregiver’s response to the child’s need for closeness and protection....
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What’s Critical Psychology? Look it up!
Critical psychology is rarely taught in the US. But the new Encyclopedia of Critical Psychologycould go a long way in remedying this. The massive (2400 pages) anthology recently published by Springer...
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Luck Matters in Matters of Love
We live in a world with over seven billion other people. Seven billion. Yet, look around. Everyday people find the person they want to be with for the rest of their lives. Two people, finding each...
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Belief in God Across Academic Disciplines
Of the 260 articles that I have thus far authored on my Psychology Today blog, a sizable proportion has tackled various facets of religion, a subset of which has dealt with the nexus of religion and...
View ArticlePit Bulls As Weapons?
A story printed in my local Longmont, Colorado paper yesterday hailed the softening of attitudes and laws toward pit bulls. The past decade or so has been a hard time for dogs who happen to be (or look...
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A Virtuous Mind: Fair-Mindedness
What does it mean to be intellectually fair-minded? In his book, Virtuous Minds, Philip Dow makes the case that there is a good deal of confusion about this trait. Many people wrongly equate...
View ArticleRain Forests and Old Growth Forests
Forests, especially rain forests and old growth forests, are the lungs of the planet. Taking in carbon dioxide that is expired by animals and produced by burning of fossil fuels, the forests produce...
View ArticleThe passive/aggressive nature of the alcoholic/addict
Communicating with the alcoholic/addict is one of the most difficult things as well as a creative challenge. If the alcoholic/addict is in an addictive state communication is worthless and one should...
View ArticleExperts: Born or Made?
Nobody is born an expert and starts creating music or playing chess straight out of the womb. So let's not stretch the argument all the way down ad absurdum. Assuming some basic skill development (like...
View ArticleCan Parents Eliminate Envy from Child Rearing?
Normal child development is complex. This brief review will address a number of important features that highlight some critical elements with regard to the central role that emotional development and...
View Article11 Ways to Tell if Your Lover Loves You
Most theories of relationships focus on the ways that intimate partners feel about each other, but according to John Gottman’s behavioral approach, it’s the outward signs you need to focus on to test...
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Down Syndrome and Aging
As the French film “Amour” has beautifully explored, becoming ill with cognitive impairment is difficult enough for white upper middle class. It is that much harder for people who have less support,...
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How to Forgive Someone You Hate
"We punish other people for the same mistake a thousand times. Every time it comes in your memory, you judge them again and punish them again."-Miguel Angel RuizHave you ever hated someone so much you...
View ArticleIs Privacy Still Possible?
In the wake of the revelations that the NSA has been hacking our phones and collecting massive amounts of personal data, can we still think privacy is possible in our world? More and more our lives are...
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Treatment of ADHD with Medication: What Parents Should Know
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder associated with difficulties with levels of inattention, disorganization, and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity (APA, 2013)....
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Back From The Brink: True Stories & Practical Help for Overcoming Depression and Bipolar Disorder By Graeme Cowan 2013, New Harbinger PublicationsA review by Dr. Lloyd SedererWhen you open the...
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