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Posture and position—how we hold, carry, and orient our bodies—also convey myriad nonverbal messages. Psychiatry professor Albert Scheflin organizes our sense of personal space with the concept...
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Understanding Peer Pressure: Walking in Their Shoes
Body concerns can involve all parts of the body, and around peers kids can be particularly sensitive about their appearances as boys and girls or as young men and young women. Freud said that the penis...
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The Challenges of Remote Management
Sometimes it seems you can learn more about management from sitting at a bar than from reading a textbook.I was recently sitting at a bar at a resort with my wife, and began to chat with the man...
View ArticleFive Things NOT to Do to Babies
Note: “Babies” refers to 0-2 or so.When I had a puppy, he hated to be ignored or left alone. At those times he would chew up the furniture. Babies hate these things too, but they can’t damage the...
View ArticleWhen Does Bilingualism Help or Hurt?
By Sara Guirgis and Kristina OlsonParents are often asking what they can do to prepare their children for the increasingly globally-connected world. Often that answer has involved encouraging children...
View ArticleUnconscious, Gut-Level Lie Detection?
I’m the skunk at the garden party when it comes to statements about humans’ ability to detect deception. There are people like Paul Ekman who claims he can detect high-stakes lies at very high levels...
View ArticleReading This Just May Save Your Marriage
Call me old-fashioned, but "The feeling is gone." shouldn't be a deal-breaker.If your relationship endures over time, you'll experience the whole range of unwanted emotions including anger,...
View ArticleAn alarming increase in mental illness?
I don’t get out enough. That’s why I missed a wretched little piece by a Boston University sociologist named Liah Greenfeld on “The Maddening of America” when it first appeared in July 2013. But an...
View ArticleA Simple Test of Therapy
I used to ask groups of graduate students a couple of questions about their own therapies, the answers to which left me so disheartened that lately I’ve just skipped the exercise. They went like this:...
View ArticleHospital Room-type and Individual Differences
Hello from a brief hiatus! Having another baby has kept me from blogging for more than a few weeks. In response to my last post on incorporating natural elements in healthcare environments, I felt a...
View ArticleTaking It To The Streets
People often talk about praying in their houses or in the house of God, in hospitals and over meals. But one of the places people pray most and talk about the least is the car.I know this because I...
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Donald Sterling: Do Racists Have a Right to Privacy?
I have been following (not too closely) the recent debacle involving Donald Sterling, the current owner of the LA Clippers who was allegedly taped uttering some very racist comments to his girlfriend....
View ArticleChange Your Attachment Style to Have a Better Life
What if we could identify the filter that shapes our perception of the world and change it so as to have a better life? We are born into the social context of our families and quickly need to /develop...
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Water, Water, Everywhere
Reading about the commodification of water (Wilk, 2006; Vannini, Taggart, 2013) is yet another reminder of how deep consumerism has reached into our everyday lives, in this case so deeply that it has...
View ArticleImprove Your Sleep With Gratitude
Do you ever have trouble falling asleep? Or maybe you wake up in the middle of the night for seemingly no reason. It happens to me, particularly recently. For the past 8 months I’ve been...
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Want To Take Better Notes? Get the Lead Out
One of the modern challenges for classroom teachers, especially at the college level, is how to deal with student use of laptops and other personal technology in the classroom. I know some instructors,...
View Article5 Urban Legends of the Job Search
I like urban legends and folklore. Who can resist the great creepy story about the babysitter and the man upstairs? Or the rumor that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen?For that reason, one of my...
View ArticleA Tale of Three Patients
It was the best of psoriasis. It was the worst of psoriasis.OK, maybe it was neither the best nor the worst, but Thursday two weeks ago brought in a whole lot of psoriasis.Vito is 60ish, a shlumpy gent...
View ArticleBorder Crossings in Hancock: Hollywood’s Racial Logics Redux
Over the past eight decades, from Borderline (1930), to Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil (1958), to Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever (1991), cinematic interracial couples have encountered violence and death...
View ArticleHow to Be Strong While Naked: Part I
IntroductionShakespeare liked Roosters. In Hamlet he refers to “the cock that is the trumpet to the morn; Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat; Awake the god of day. We begin with a Rooster...
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