There's No Place Like Home: Eating Disorders and the Family
I am proud to announce a wonderful educational and supportive conference designed especially for families of children with eating disorders. All of the speakers are respected colleagues of mine and top...
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Back to School with Positive Psychology
Teachers often ask me: what is positive psychology anyway? I answer that it is a compendium of reciprocal principles and practices that promote optimal learning and overall well-being in the classroom....
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Seven Proven Tips for Weight Loss Success
If you're looking for tips to lose weight, it is not difficult to find them. The weight loss industry is a 60 billion dollar business, involving a plethora of experts, coaches, and companies advocating...
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An Introvert's Dilemma
I get a lot of invitations to stuff, especially on Facebook. I get invited to parties and club events, to art happenings and networking breakfasts and all sorts of more-the-merrier gatherings. Some I...
View ArticleJealousy, the Green-Eyed Monster
My own eyes are hazel, that’s brown with a touch of green in certain lights. I write that because very few would call me green eyed or even usually discern the green in mine. Quite literally, that’s...
View ArticleThe Divided Mind (in Love)
This column is not only about the divided mind of the human race in general, it is about the divided minds between men and women's beliefs around the topic of love. It is here we will be talking about...
View ArticleSexual Issues in Midlife
We are often surprised by changes that occur in our sexual lives during middle age. The two hormones that most affect sexual physiology, estrogen and testosterone, tend to decrease during midlife, in...
View ArticleHow Investment Drives Engagement
This week, Baba Shiv and I taught a class at the Stanford Graduate School of Business called, “Using Neuroscience to Influence Human Behavior.” The course focused on the science behind how consumers...
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15 Tools For An "Instant Happy"
About a year and a half ago I began designing inspirational posters - which work like a "pattern interrupt" to help stop a moving train of negative thoughts in its track. Many of my posters to my...
View ArticleHow to Bring Up Children Properly
I was trained a long time ago as a child psychiatrist. That training usually lasts two years and takes place after the first two years of a psychiatric residency. In my case, it came also after two...
View ArticleIs the Human Nature/Culture War Ever Going to End?
Last week, Science reviewed my book Games Primates Play. I am, of course, pleased and honored that the most prestigious scientific journal in the world chose to devote one and a half of its precious...
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11 Ways to Improve Your Workouts
You’ve probably gotten the memo by now that exercise is good for you. Whether you’ve decided to take advantage of exercise’s benefits might be a different story. Perhaps you’re afraid that you can’t...
View ArticleAre You a Sucker?
Social psychologist Robert Cialdini is an expert on manipulative communications (1). Yet, he was the first to admit that he was more vulnerable than most. He was the man accepting the “free” rose from...
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High Noon: Biden vs. Ryan vs. Raddatz
The moment the TV camera opened with a master shot of the VP debate set at the Center College of Kentucky auditorium, you knew things were going to be different. For dramatic seconds that felt like...
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Malala and the Power of We
Anyone who follows the news is likely familiar with the story of Malala Yousufzai, a 14-year-old girl who was shot last week in an attempted assassination by members of the Taliban for going to school...
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Sex and the Single Primate
Sex and the Single Primate By Glenn Croston, Ph.D. on October 15, 2012 in The Real Story of Risk Men are drawn to take risks in pursuit of women. A photo of a pretty face is all it takes for men to...
View ArticleIs There No Avail For Grief?
On November 13, 2012, I read the following paragraph by John Banville in the New York Times Book Review section. He was reviewing Joan Didion’s Blue Nights, a memoir of the heartbreaking loss of her...
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Military Suicide: More Than a Military Issue?
Military Suicide: More Than a Military Issue? By George R. Mastroianni, Ph.D. on October 13, 2012 in Headspace The recent rise in military suicides cannot be explained by combat stress alone - many...
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