Happy Elephants and Miserable Donkeys
Liberals and Conservatives differ on pretty much every issue short of the fact that kicking puppies, kittens and children is bad. But, do republicans and democrats differ on average in their happiness?...
View ArticleThe Three Magic Words
If the three magic words in real estate are location, location, location, then the three magic words in relationships are communication, communication, communication. But just as some locations are...
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The Virtual Workplace: Tips For Working From Anywhere
The number of companies encouraging their employees to work from home, on the road, or on a customer site has skyrocketed over the last decade. It is estimated that at least 10% of U.S. workforce...
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Who Utters “I Love You” First: Men or Women?
One of the fun aspects of studying human behavior is to empirically test accepted wisdoms. For example, I suspect that if asked, most people would likely state that men have greater difficulty sharing...
View ArticleTrying to Make Sense of the Unthinkable
When I first read about the Stamford, Connecticut fire that took the lives of three children and their grandparents, and then read about the murder of six family members in Grapevine, Texas, my first...
View ArticleConsequences of Early Childhood Distress
Ignoring their infants` distress could lead to subsequent emotional dysregulation writes Darcia Narvaez, Associate Professor of Psychology at Notre Dame University in a recently published Post in...
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Colorblind Ideology is a Form of Racism
What is racial colorblindness?Racial issues are often uncomfortable to discuss and rife with stress and controversy. Many ideas have been advanced to address this sore spot in the American psyche....
View ArticleJesus Christ: Cynic or cynic?
Cynicism was conceived as a mode of living that purposefully refused to adhere to social conventions or political correctness; instead, one was to live one's life "according to nature." Founded by...
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REM Sleep, Emotional Regulation and Prefrontal Cortex
In an interesting study published recently in Current Biology (van der Helm E, Yao J, Dutt S, Rao V, Saletin JM, Walker MP. REM Sleep Depotentiates Amygdala Activity to Previous Emotional Experiences....
View ArticleI Want to Say No to the New Year's Eve Party
Dear Dr. G.,Here I am again in yet another struggle with my husband and teenage daughter. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve and my 15 year old daughter wants to go to a party with an 18 year old boy and his...
View ArticleFoolish Hazing
Hazing is an initiation practice, most common among young people, in which members of a group--such as a fraternity, military unit or sports teams--force newcomers to do unpleasant, humiliating or...
View ArticleChildren Learn What They Live
December has been a sweet month for my family. Our seventh grandchild, a healthy baby boy, was born this month and my husband, Peter, and I were able to spend over a week helping out his parents as...
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Linehan and Jung as Wounded Healers: Two Dialectically Different Approaches...
Recently, sixty-eight-year-old clinical psychologist Dr. Marsha Linehan, famous for her fusion of spiritual, cognitive and behavioral treatment known as Dialectical Behavior Therapy, made a shocking...
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The Depopulated Self
One of my daily goals, as burdensone as it might sound, is to have fewer than 2 messages on my 3 active email accounts (2 university and one personal). I am also quick to delete my iPhone and phone...
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"Warrior" and Willpower
The recently-released onto DVD "Warrior" is about two blue-collar brothers, Brendan and Tommy, who ascend to fame and success in the world of Ultimate Fighting (UFC) - a new sport that has melded...
View ArticlePromise Keepers - The Committed Partners Who Stay Faithful to Each Other
As a relationship therapist for four decades, I have been called upon to intervene in hundreds of cases involving infidelity. A large percentage of couples seeking counseling do so because one or the...
View ArticleWhat You Should Know About 2012: Answers to 13 Questions
1. Who are "the Maya"?The term "the Maya" is about as nebulous as "the Americans" or "the Europeans." Technically, "the Maya" refers to a wide variety of Maya peoples, both ancient and modern, whose...
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This Year's Juicy Books on Thinking, Persuasion and Language
I've done it again, and you probably have too. During the holidays, I've succumbed to the temptations of that extra bit of gravy and just one more of those delicious cookies. Now it's getting to be...
View ArticleWill the 60s Revolution Be Undone?
Occupiers of Wall Street, --you re the grandchildren of the revolution we fought and won in the 1960s. I'd love for Tina Tuner to sing a song for you, modeled after the song she sang in "Mad Max"....
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