Are Homophobic People Really Gay and Not Accepting It?
A series of studies recently published in the prestigious Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found higher levels of homophobia in individuals with unacknowledged attractions to the same sex,...
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Are You a Multiplier or a Diminisher?
Drawing on interviews with more than 150 executives and on her own experience as the former vice president of Oracle University, Liz Wiseman, author of the book Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make...
View ArticleThe Resume Is Dead, Long Live the Resume
Recently there has been a spate of interesting articles, ebooks, and other writings about the death of the resume. As far back as 1970, Richard Bolles wrote about the declining need for resumes in his...
View ArticleOn Boarding Can Mean More to Company Than New Hire
“On Boarding” is the structured way a company brings newly hired employees into their “fold.”Many organizations have orientations meant to orient newly hired employees. On Boarding is taking it the...
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Mass Murderers With a Mission
The trial in Norway for mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has focused to this point on his mental state. It’s no surprise to see mental health experts divided over whether he is psychotic or a...
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Stress, Violence and Your Genes
Childhood stress and violence exposure will contribute to getting disease earlier in adult life, according to a new, and important study. Published in the May 2012 issue of the journal Molecular...
View ArticleOnly Real Risks Can Lead to Real Success
During my freshman year at college, I used to go around announcing that I was going to be a lawyer, mostly because I thought I was expected, at the highly advanced age of eighteen, to know what I was...
View ArticleCoping With Email Overload
A few weeks ago, I returned from a week-long technology-free vacation with my family. No computer, no phone, no email.When I got to the office and checked my computer, I had hundreds of email messages...
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Understanding Validation: A Way to Communicate Acceptance
One of the four options we have in any problem situation is acceptance. Validation is one way that we communicate acceptance of ourselves and others. Validation doesn't mean agreeing or approving....
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Sex Objects in a World Turned Upside-Down
Just how often do people objectify women? According to recent research, we're so used to treating women as sex objects that we can do it even when standing on our heads.In a study published in this...
View ArticleQ: Life Is....? A: Change!
Life is change. I have been busy living the change. My son finally knows where he is going to college. My daughter has moved up to starting goalie. And within our family we have a member who is...
View ArticleDrunk Support
The college drinking scene is a matrix of fun and looming crisis. Students share laughter, adventure, and emergent affection when they drink together. And they also face a variety of risks, including...
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"Living Together With Dolphins": "The Cove" Redecorated
The Japanese town of Taiji, known for the inhumane, reprehensible, and bloody annual slaughter of dolphins that was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove", plans to open a marine mammal...
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Creativity, Happiness and Your Own Two Hands
Purposeful hand use enhances well-being in a technologically saturated cultureResearch has shown that creating or tending things by hand enhances mental health and makes us happy. Dr. Kelly Lambert...
View ArticleBaboons Distinguish Real Words From Nonsense Words
Non-reading baboons can learn to distinguish written real words from nonsense words. For example, the baboons could learn to recognize words such as done and vast and distinguish them from nonsense...
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Eric Kandel: Nobel-Prize Winner and Regular Guy
Every once in a while life throws you a pleasant surprise. I got several today when I attended a luncheon for Eric Kandel, a neuroscientist visiting Arizona State University to accept an honorary...
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Emotion is reversed in left-handers' brains
The way we use our hands may determine how emotions are organized in our brains, according to a new study led by Geoffrey Brookshire, a Ph.D. student in my lab at the New School for Social Research,...
View ArticleOn helping people
Recently I had brunch with friends, and I described my wish to help a certain young man from Nicaragua, whom I’ll call N. I’ve written about him before for PT in my blog about the Chorotega diet, as he...
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