The Secret of Success
Since I did most of my actual growing up in south Arkansas, I found myself digging into Amy Chozick’s recent New York Times profile of Mike Beebe, the current Democratic governor of Arkansas. Born to a...
View ArticleDiamonds Aren’t Forever
My husband and I got hitched this past June, which I can honestly say was one of the happiest and most transcendent experiences of my life. However, we both agree that whereas the wedding was awesome,...
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The New Way TV Advertises Alcohol to Kids
We know that children and teenagers are particularly susceptible to advertising. We are aware that they are easily influenced by peer pressure. We see that they have a self-image is fragile and is...
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Stress Is Addictive, Controllable, and Under-Appreciated
Stress itself may not necessarily be a negative force. When your spirits are in high gear while working on a major project trying to meet a deadline, or even burning the midnightoil to get away on a...
View ArticleNarcissists are unpopular...in different ways
Regardless of the first impression narcissists make, over time their nature and personalities come out to the people they know well. Earlier research has shown that narcissists are often disliked by...
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What My 10 Most Popular Posts Say About You
I thought it might be interesting to take a look at my ten all time most popular posts since starting to write for Psychology Today six years ago, and what, if anything, the topics might tell us--at...
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Successful Artists Do It--Can You?
I’ve kinda sorta made a living as a writer for a few decades now. It was never easy, and it required a lot of adjustments, not least of which was my definition of “making a living.” While one person’s...
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Love Yourself More by Judging Others Less
Despite our best efforts, we all judge others. It might be over a small thing, like a co-worker who took too long of a lunch break. Or it might be a big thing, such as a person behaves selfishly or...
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So You Want a More Solitary Existence
In yesterday’s article, I made the case that our perhaps most underconsidered lifestyle is reclusiveness, the largely solitary existence.In response, I received comments and private emails requesting...
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ENVY: Bane of Existence or Gift of Nature?
This article is part two of a three part series. The current presentation deals with a description of envy chiefly from a Western perspective, and also alludes to its Eastern correlate---“desire.” The...
View ArticleYour Fitness Age is the One that Really Counts
Many people would agree that we benefit from the increased experience that getting older brings. However, with each passing year, the aging of the body creates its own difficulties in everyday life....
View ArticleFASDs: The Art of Social Change
There is a great deal happening in the arena of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), especially as pertains to policy development. In just the past few years a number of significant policies...
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The Psychology of Laziness
A person is being lazy if she is able to carry out some activity that she ought to carry out, but is disinclined to do so because of the effort involved. Instead, she carries out the activity...
View ArticleA secret way to improve your self esteem
Aleisha*, a professional woman in her late twenties, loves her job but worries that she’s not good enough at it. However, even though she often questions her abilities, the evidence is that she’s...
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Is Cancer the Cure for Alzheimer's disease?
In 2014 Ferrán Catalá-López and his colleagues from the University of Valencia in Spain reviewed the inverse association between cancer and neurological diseases including dementia. What they reported...
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Ebola and Medicine
Introduction:I began reading about the Ebola virus in the New York Times some forty years ago when it was limited to the African Rain Forest. Trained as biologist, before becoming a psychologist, I...
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Dangerous Personalities
We all deal with people who make us uncomfortable, perhaps exhaust us, even scare us. The just published book, Dangerous Personalities, based on two decades of talking to and studying victims and...
View ArticleDoing a Phd.
The further the halcyon days of undergraduate life, receed the more happy and content they appear to have been. Wistful days spent by the sea,or lake or a river; brilliant lectures by erudite...
View ArticleWhy Does Retrieval Enhance Learning? It's All About Trying
Taking a test—and specifically, the memory retrieval process that testing entails—enhances learning. This blog post is about a new study that sheds light on why retrieval is beneficial. BackgroundWhen...
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