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Our Love-Hate Relationship With Scary Movies
A major motion picture about the life and frustrated loves of the late, brilliant British director Alfred Hitchcock has opened across the nation. Hitchcock was the uniquely styled director of...
View ArticleDon't Blame the Turkey
Many believe that turkey is to blame for the several-day recovery we all endure at least once per year. Perhaps the most famous (and only) Thanksgiving myth says that consuming large quantities of...
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Bilingual Brains – Smarter & Faster
A Gift Parents Can Give Children that Money Can’t BuyRecent studies of children who grow up in bilingual settings reveal advantages over single language children, including both increased attentive...
View ArticleThe Brain's Clues to Finding a Will and a Way
In baseball, when a pitcher is having a bad outing you’ll hear coaches say that he’s throwing but he’s not pitching. What they mean is that the pitcher is going through the mechanics of delivering the...
View ArticleAre We Seeing the End of Charismatic Leadership?
We may be reaching watershed in our attraction to charismatic leaders, at least the ones where style and charm without substance no longer have an appeal.Tomas Charmoro-Premuzic, writing in the Harvard...
View ArticleWhich Countries Are Most (and Least) Emotional?
A recent poll by Gallup measured positive and negative emotions in 150 countries and created an overall ranking of country ‘emotionality’.Positive and Negative Emotions:The poll asked over 1,000 adults...
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Working Memory and School Performance
Have you ever walked into a room, stared at the wall and forgot why you went in there? What failed you was your working memory. You were supposed to store the plan of what you were going to do next in...
View ArticlePassing Along Work Ethic to Children:
Most of our leadership development/career management work is paid for by corporations. One type of corporation we work for is called the family office.A family office is a private company that...
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Healing Objects
A statue of the Virgin Mary marks where the McNulty’s home once stood in Breezy Point, Queens, before hurricane Sandy. People come to leave candles and flowers at what has come to be called "The Breezy...
View ArticleFrom Spiritual Crisis to Spiritual Awakening
Individuals at times go through what Grof terms a ’spiritual emergency’; in this a person may develop unusual perceptions and a sense of consciousness that is part from the ‘norm’. The psychiatric...
View ArticlePura Vida, or Dura Vida?
Maybe the honeymoon is over, the bloom is off the rose. I understand and experience the wonder and beauty of Costa Rica, although I am not sure that “pure life” which is the literal translation of...
View ArticleThe Puzzle of Pain
For anyone like myself who thinks a lot about pain, the experience has never been easy to pin down. This was brought home to me this past weekend when my 10-year-old son responded to The New York...
View ArticleBrain Waves as Neural Correlates of Consciousness
When we are thinking, thoughts flicker in and out of our minds. What does that mean on the level of the brain? Recent research, conducted by researchers at at MIT and Boston University, suggests that...
View ArticleWhen Perspective Taking Backfires
For at least the past decade, social psychologists have provided evidence that perspective taking (viewing the world through another person’s eyes) leads to a decrease in stereotyping. This makes...
View ArticleBut You Forgot The Ruby Slippers!
After I had come to Costa Rica, and purchased a home, in the full thrall of a limerant romance with the country, its people, its history, its biome, and the overall beauty of the place, I was...
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Our Parents' Children
“If it was good enough for my parents and their community, then it’s good enough for me.”This comforting idea can apply to many things like where you live, what you wear, what you eat and drink, and...
View ArticleIndulge Mindfully this holiday
What is it about the holiday season that makes us throw caution to the wind, toss out all of last year’s resolutions, and overdo just about everything? Well, of course, there’s a mindset that we’re...
View ArticleAnimal Pain Hurts: The Ghosts In Our Machine
Who lives, who dies, and whyThe Ghosts in Our Machine is a feature-length documentary directed by Liz Marshall to be released in 2013. This incredible and forward looking film follows internationally...
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Inside the Real Stories of Celebrity Recoveries
Psychological disorders affect as many as half of all adults, according to numerous surveys. The most prevalent mental health disorder is substance abuse, estimated to occur in over half of the adult...
View ArticleTough Times for Gen Y’ers
In my 2009 Psychology Today article, “Millennials Poised To Take Over The Workplace,” I optimistically declared that millennials or Gen Y’ers were poised to replace most Baby Boomers in the workplace....
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