Young Men and Campus Violence
A great deal is being written and published in the mainstream press about males and sexual assault, especially young men on university campuses. I will leave it to the sociologists to explore the...
View ArticleThe One Best Reason To Fall In Love
There’s a theory going round that we somehow gravitate toward romantic partners who enable us to resolve our unique childhood issues, whatever particular problems we couldn’t solve with our...
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Is Jodi Arias A Narcissist?
Is Jodi Arias a narcissist? In prior blogs I have examined and rejected many diagnoses that armchair psychiatrists have slapped on her. As I have discussed: No she is not a sociopath (though she shares...
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Waking Up on the Wrong Side of the Desk—And Staying There
Most managers don’t give much thought to the experiences their employees are having right before they get to work. Maybe one employee sat in hellacious traffic and another quarreled with her teenage...
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Toys Are Made for Dogs to Rip: the Wookey Hole Cave Massacre
Plush toys, like teddy bears and fluffy animals, seem to be among the favorite toys for dogs. Waggle one in front of your dog's face and give it a toss and even dogs who have very little hunting...
View ArticleWhere Did The Summer Go?
There has been a delay in my blog posts. A little ironic given the title of my blog, Don't Delay, I suppose. The editors of Psychology Today gave this title to my blog back in 2008; the first blog to...
View ArticleDo You Know Your True Strengths?
Garrison Keillor said it best in his oft-quoted sign-off, "Well, that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above...
View ArticleOpioids and Marijuana Laws
For several years now, pain researchers have been wondering about a question that lay folks, including federal government regulators, might dismiss as absurd: The idea that marijuana, far from creating...
View ArticleHow the Asian Pop Culture Boom is Feeding Eating Disorders
In our book, Marcia and I wrote about the “Western toxin effect,” in which developing countries begin to experience a rise in eating disorders, often spread through exposure to TV and western emphasis...
View ArticleInsanity Pain
Don’t take your love away from me,Don’t you leave my heart in misery,If you go, then I’ll be blue,‘Cause breaking up is hard to do… -Neil Sedaka If you follow my writings,...
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Why We Can't Stop the Depression Epidemic
Comedian Robin Williams’s death in August rocketed depression into the headlines, and his suicide became a defining moment when the nation would finally reckon with depression.But this reckoning never...
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Revising the Golden Rule for Lasting Social Harmony
The Golden Rule, in some form or another, exists in many cultures, religions, and ethical codes. While the specific form varies from culture to culture and belief system to belief system, the basic...
View ArticleThe One Best Rule for Predicting People’s Behavior
Many of us don’t trust economists because their predictions are cold, biased or wrong. Still, the “dismal science” as economics is sometimes called may be the best source of psychological reasoning...
View ArticleQuit Giving Your Kids a "Hall Pass" Through Life
With the growing difficulty of teenagers who ignore school, their parents, their obligations and think they can just pass on by, it is time for parents to take a look at what is happening here. We are...
View ArticleMilgram at 50: Is It Time for a Rethink?
We all know that humans are capable of committing unspeakable evil. Perhaps the pinnacle of this human capability is the ability to commit genocides. After any particular group of people shows itself...
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OMG, What a Slacker Mom!
Come on, we’ve all been seared by it. The evil eye from some officious grandma in the supermarket who knows better than we do about our kids. Even if our kids are “typical” and just having a bad...
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Why Atheists Need an Afterlife
Now that I have two little grandkids, I think about the future more than ever. The far distant future. It’s painful to consider that these innocents I know and love so intensely are likely to be...
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Why Psychology Thinks You Are Average
This blog attempts to highlight one of the central conceptual issues facing the field of psychology today, which is the relation between the “individual” and the “aggregate.” The individual refers to...
View ArticleLow Testosterone, Obesity and Alzheimer’s Disease Are Linked
As men get older two things usually happen: testosterone levels fall and the waistline grows. Testosterone levels fall by about one percent every year after age 30 while obesity among the aged has...
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Share Your Best Narcissistic Social Media Stories
Earlier this week, I wrote a post about the Single Question Narcissism Inventory, which basically asks a person if they are narcissistic and trusts their answer. I wrote about how, in my own research,...
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