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Can Sports Make Schools More Attractive Places for Students?
A recent report from the United States has highlighted the serious problem of absenteeism facing many schools, and the serious effects this can have on young people’s achievement and later lives. The...
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Should Atheists Criticize Religious People?
It’s tempting to try to shake religious people’s faith. After all, religion is irrational--How could anyone find comfort in a God that would allow billions of people, including infants, to die in agony...
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Serial Killer Myth #4: They Want To Get Caught.
It is popularly believed that serial killers secretly want to get caught. For the vast majority of them, however, this is simply not true. They love the act of killing too much. Serial killers gain...
View ArticleConsidering Psychoactive Medication for Your Adolescent
No question: for most adolescents there are going to be times of emotional upheaval and periods of problematic functioning along the challenging road of growing up.By themselves and often with support...
View ArticleLessons from the New Science of Adolescence
Lynne Griffin in conversation with Laurence SteinbergWhy did you write Age of Opportunity?There were two driving forces that motivated me. The first is that if you look at statistics on the well-being...
View ArticleDo You Really Want A Healthy Relationship?
For both women and men, so many issues revolve around the relationship with their significant other, or the loss or lack of a significant other. The one question we want to ask readers is: Do you...
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Sexual Crimes and War
We all know by now that the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, has beheaded two American journalists, and that, routinely, its soldiers execute village men and put their severed heads on sticks....
View ArticleHow to Have a Well-Behaved Child, Part 1
I believe that children should be well behaved. Most parents, of course, want more for their children than just good behavior. We want them to become caring and responsible adults.Still, more often...
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“I Don’t Care About Anything”
At some point, most people ask themselves, “What’s it all mean?” And sometimes, their answer is, “Not much.”Here’s a dialogue between two hypothetical people. One believes that nearly anyone can have a...
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Lose Or Chews Control
"Every time I go to the store I have to buy a [chewing gum called] ‘Big Red’. I chew three packs every day. I love the taste, and it's sweet. I started chewing gum excessively when she couldn't find a...
View ArticleYou're Not My Real Mother
In so many ways, my daughter Julia is a young soon-to-be 12-year-old. Though she’s in middle school, she’s unconcerned with fashion, boys or other pre-pubescent experimenting. Julia, adopted from a...
View ArticleWhat Does Seductive Body Language Look Like?
There has been surprisingly little research on the nonverbal communication of seduction. Which nonverbal cues are interpreted by others as seductive? How good are people at communicating seduction to...
View ArticleWhat Happens When We Don't Trust Law Enforcement?
The tragic shooting death of Michael Brown and chokehold death of Eric Garner by police has brought into sharp focus the fact that many Americans simply do not trust law enforcement. Recent polls...
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Why the Issues that We Ignore Often Come Back to Plague Us
Novelist Paul Auster wrote a memoir, Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure.He writes, “By the end of 1977, I was feeling trapped, desperate to find a solution. I had spent my whole life avoiding...
View ArticleThe Tragic Side of Comedy, Where the Pain Lives
When Robin Williams killed himself, it was a loss that felt so personal to so many people who never really knew him. It provoked a flood of grief all around the world. Film director Chris Colombus who...
View ArticleThe End of the Road
In my last blog post, I talked about “precision medicine” and finding out if a particular antidepressant medication is going to make you achieve remission. I talked about that at the end of the big...
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Should You Cut Your Testicles Off to Live Longer?
Genetic studies by Cynthia Kenyon—at the Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging at the University of California San Francisco—with flatworms and Richard Miller—at the Geriatrics Center of the Medical...
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11 Reasons that Combat Veterans with PTSD are Being Harmed
There is a strategy to writing a popular Psychology Today article. Describe 5 ways to feel happier right now, add images of scantily clad women with curvaceous bodies, and include references to...
View ArticleWhat Happens When there is no Video?
Readers who follow me regularly know that I am an avid Redskins fan, and by extension, a huge fan of football more generally. However, I find myself questioning my fandom of the NFL with yet another...
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