How to Get the Most Out of Your Vacation
Do you take full advantage of your vacations, or does your vacation pass too quickly and you feel as if you never got any time off? Do you return from vacation just as stressed as when you left work...
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Why Is It Sometimes Hard To Keep a Promise?
By Melissa Ritter, Ph.D.Keeping promises is considered a measure of one’s worth—we prize being “as good as our word.” Yet not one of us hasn’t struggled to keep some of our promises, often feeling...
View ArticleWant Your Child to Graduate? Follow this Advice
It’s well established that the best predictor of a student’s achievement in school is parent involvement. [1] You want your child to be happy in school, do his or her homework, get higher scores on...
View ArticleThe Male Identity Crisis And The Decline of Fatherhood
America is rapidly becoming a fatherless society, or perhaps more accurately, an absentee father society. The importance and influence of fathers in families has been in significant decline since the...
View ArticleThe Ideal Career for You
My co-author of our book on The Longevity Project, Dr. Leslie Martin, and I regularly chat with college students and young professionals who are searching for their ideal careers. They seek a match...
View ArticleWhat Do You Mean I Look Pretty Today?
April* was furious with her boyfriend. “He told me I looked pretty this morning. It ruined my day!”What?You probably know what it’s like to get a compliment that should make you feel better but...
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What Do I Do When I Hate My Colleague?
Hate is a strong and powerful emotion. It’s not something you take likely. But every once in a while you probably find yourself with such animosity and disdain for a colleague, that you feel justified...
View ArticleImmigrant Entrepreneurs
Forbes Magazine recently reported that first-generation American migrants were starting businesses at over twice the rate of natives. In addition, first-generation migrants create start-ups at twice...
View ArticleBeing Attractive Is Attractive Enough.
A number of years ago, I saw in psychotherapy a divorced woman who was interested in finding someone to date. She did not consider herself particularly choos1y, and she thought of herself as “sort of”...
View ArticleReparations for African American Survivors of Jim Crow?
Reparations and restitution are important aspects of restorative justice. This form of justice seeks to right the wrongs that have been inflicted upon an individual or population and to help in the...
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How Being Different Will Help Filter Out Superficial People
Solzhenitsyn suggested that “Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.” How true! A very significant advantage of being different is that it can become an...
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Post-modern Anthropomorphism
Psychology has long had a history of fighting over whether we should anthropomorphize animal behavior or whether, instead, we should be careful to not anthropomorphize human behavior. Or whether...
View ArticleHelp for Doctors With Substance Use Disorders
If your doctor had a drug or alcohol problem, wouldn’t you want to know that help was available that your doctor would feel good about accessing? Approximately 10-12% of physicians will develop a drug...
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From a Past Rooted in Pain, "Still You Will Rise"
The late, great Dr. Maya Angelou—renowned poet, actress, Civil Rights activist, and professor, may not have known anything about personality disorders. But in this video of her iconic poem "And I...
View ArticleTennessee Babies in Harm's Way?
For years now, I have been lecturing to university students and members of the public about the pregnancy police. Remember those so-called “crack babies” in the 80s and 90s? Well, guess what … They...
View ArticleRats Regret What They Didn't Do: Behavioral Neuroscience
I'm always on the look out for what most people would consider improbable results or surprises in the field of cognitive ethology (the study of animal minds). However, if one considers Charles Darwin's...
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You May Be Your Own Lucky Charm!
Our mindset is a powerful thing. I often speak and write about research that shows how our views of the world influence our reality. One of the most widely discussed studies in this field comes from...
View ArticleOldest Living Man Dies At Age 111 With Sense of Humor Intact
The world’s oldest living man, Dr. Alexander Imich, has died at age 111. Although some men claim to be older, Imich was the oldest with solid documentation of his date of birth. What was his secret to...
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