Listen to Your Parents! (It’s Good for Them)
After rejecting their parents’ values wholeheartedly as teenagers, many young adults rediscover the joys of family bonds and once again see …
Category Archives: Psychology
And Spread Sunshine All Over the Place….
Practitioners of the discipline ”positive psychology” say that thinking happy thoughts can help create a more joyful life. But could too …
Mosley’s Dilemma (Too skilled for the jobs at hand)
By the close of the Masterpiece Theatre series, Downton Abbey, changing economic times had reduced the Abbey’s household staff to …
Is Spanking Bad for Children?
Did your parents spank you? Mine spanked me, plenty. And, no, this will not be a story about my awful …
Clowning Your Way into Parenthood
Laughing may help fertility. In a quasi-randomized study, researchers at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Zrifin, Israel found that the pregnancy rate …
Tough Love for Dog Lovers
The 2009 book He’s Just Not That Into You was (quoting the Amazon.com description) “tough love advice for otherwise smart …
The Incandescent Effect
Forget the “wisdom” about turning the lights down low to set a romantic mood. A new study by faculty at …
It’s Not Just Narcissists Who Want Plastic Surgery
… It’s narcisists who are perfectionists. Call it their own Snopes.com sleuthing. But hearing again and again that narcissistic self-absorption …
The Biology of Lying
When a mother in Ohio faked her address in order to send her child to a better public school, she …
How Do You Spell G-E-N-I-U-S?
Not all geniuses are physicists like Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein. Creative genius Andy Warhol is widely reported to have …
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