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So You Met Someone You Might Want to Date. Now What?
In a recent PsychologyToday.com article, I described how I helped a client develop a plan for meeting Mr. Right.A reader asked, “So you’ve met him. Now what?”Here are some thoughts.Keep your antennae...
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Guest Blogger: Carly Rodgers, M.S.Ebola. It’s a term we’ve all become far too familiar with, especially within the recent weeks, as this deadly virus has made its way into the United States. It’s...
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Social Mindfulness
White or wheat or rye? Would you like fries with that? ~ The Book of Choice In Renegotiation, I mentioned the phenomenon of social mindfulness. To be socially mindful means to be able to take the...
View ArticleIs Your Partner Driving You Crazy?
Intimate partners count on each other to maintain a “sane” interaction between them. In short, that means they have a common reality they both share, a way that each believes the other will see things...
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The First Date
In the first installment in this is series, I described how I helped my client develop her plan for meeting Mr. Right. In the second installment, I offered advice on how you might handle a first...
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Eyes On The Prize
Over the last two decades I have written a lot of research papers about the structural characteristics of gambling and their effect on subsequent human behaviour. One of the most basic structural...
View ArticleThink Negative! 7 Ways It Can Help You
You knew it was going to happen. Anytime a particular idea gets a bit too popular, it is going to get taken down a notch. American society has been totally preoccupied with happiness and positive...
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Filling the Hole in Your Heart: Recovering from Childhood
“It’s still hard explaining what it was like to people who didn’t experience it. I think most people think I’m exaggerating. I’ve gotten to used to it, over time, but it still stings and recovery is...
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Music Is What Feelings Sound Like
Most of us absolutely love music. We are compelled by it. We are provoked by it. We are moved by it. We are inspired by it. We feel connected to it. It reflects something profound about who we are and...
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Racism Insurance Promo for Dear White People: A Critique
There is so much to like about the new Dear White People promo, Racism Insurance (see clip below).For starters, the skits are laugh-out-loud funny, and most of us can use more laughter in our lives.But...
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Lazy Professor
It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it. ~ Danny Kahneman, thinking slowEvery now and then, it re-dawns on me that the person in the street does not know what a...
View ArticleAs Seen on TV: Advertising’s Influence on Alcohol Abuse
As Seen on TV: Advertising’s Influence on Alcohol AbuseExcessive alcohol consumption is a leading cause of premature death in the U.S. and responsible for one in every 10 deaths. The statistics that...
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The Recluse Option
Most people wouldn’t dream of becoming a recluse. After all, we’re said to be social animals, not to mention sexual ones. And there are more specific reasons:Many people like living and working with...
View ArticleThe Languages you Speak to Your Bilingual Child
Lauren is a little Dutch-English bilingual girl whom Belgian psycholinguist Annick De Houwer tells us about in one of her recent publications. Her father spoke English to her and her mother Dutch. But...
View ArticleCombatting Procrastination Hotspots
For many, the holiday season is not the season to be jolly. It has a reputation for triggering stress and procrastination. However, any special event can stimulate these conditions. Your mate’s...
View ArticleLost in Translation
“You too fat. No have pants for you.” It’s something I really didn’t want to hear, and not only because I had just evacuated to Hong Kong following the Japanese earthquake and had almost no clothes...
View ArticleCurling up with a Good Book Can Be a Mood Booster
"You can't possibly be serious. You actually suggest that people read Anne of Green Gables as therapy?" gasped my good friend, and analytically oriented, therapist-colleague. Well, of course I do. And...
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Ted Bundy's Ghost Revisited
When I was researching for Blood & Ghosts, I looked at several Internet reports about the ghostly visitations of serial killers. Ted Bundy was one of them. Then I was writing Haunted Crime Scenes...
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