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The New York Times: In these final weeks before the holidays, it may strike you that retailers have gone out of their way to make holiday shopping as unpleasant an experience as possible. The odd truth...
View ArticleExperiencing Discrimination Increases Risk-Taking, Anger, and Vigilance
Experiencing rejection not only affects how we think and feel — over the long-term it can also influence our physical and mental health. New research suggests that when rejection comes in the form of...
View Article‘It’s Just a Dog. Get Over It.’
The Wall Street Journal: Last week, the singer Fiona Apple told her fans that she would be canceling the South American leg of her concert tour in order to be with her dying dog. Ms. Apple’s...
View ArticleOn Facebook, Bad With the Good
The New York Times: Like many women these days, Aran Hissam, 35, of Melbourne, Fla., posted the news that she was pregnant on Facebook. On the morning of an ultrasound last year, she debated on the...
View ArticleNew Research on Emotion From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research on emotion from Psychological Science. The Emotionally Intelligent Decision Maker: Emotion-Understanding Ability Reduces the Effect of Incidental Anxiety on Risk Taking...
View ArticleHow To Talk to Your Kids About the School Shooting
Slate: What do you say to your elementary-school-aged children about the mass slaughter of children at an elementary school? I put this question to Dr. Alan E. Kazdin, director of the Yale Parenting...
View ArticleTo Tell Its Story, Red Cross Goes to Those It Helped
The New York Times: The American Red Cross has commissioned a new public service advertising campaign to raise money in the holiday season by showing how the organization helps people facing problems...
View ArticleWhy you need to gauge your human capital
Reuters: The end of the year is a good time to illuminate your personal financial situation in a different way. Instead of focusing exclusively on financial capital – how much money you have...
View ArticleAdvice is given to help kids cope with the Connecticut school shooting
Examiner: The Connecticut school shooting is one of the most horrible tragedies in American history. It is very important to be very careful with how you approach your children in discussing this...
View ArticleHug your kids, say you love them – and don’t over-talk the Connecticut shootings
The Globe and Mail: As U.S. President Barack Obama said in his statement to the press on Friday, every parent in the United States (and every parent in Canada who is shaken by the mass shooting at an...
View ArticleToo Many Doctors Can Hurt a Patient in ‘Bystander Effect’
ABC: An acutely ill man with mysterious symptoms — a nasty rash, kidney and lung failure — was admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital where he was treated by 40 of its finest doctors. But because so many...
View ArticleMourning and Memory: A Paradoxical Grief
The Huffington Post: I once witnessed, up close and painfully, the grief of a man who had lost his wife of 50 years. A period of emotional disruption is normal in such circumstances, but this widower’s...
View ArticleHow to Make People Laugh
Women’s Health: If you’ve ever watched a good SNL skit, you know that impersonations can be hilarious. Want to spread the giggles yourself? The best way to master an impression is to practice in front...
View ArticleNew Research on Emotion From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research on emotion from Psychological Science. The Emotionally Intelligent Decision Maker: Emotion-Understanding Ability Reduces the Effect of Incidental Anxiety on Risk Taking...
View ArticleHow To Talk to Your Kids About the School Shooting
Slate: What do you say to your elementary-school-aged children about the mass slaughter of children at an elementary school? I put this question to Dr. Alan E. Kazdin, director of the Yale Parenting...
View ArticleTo Tell Its Story, Red Cross Goes to Those It Helped
The New York Times: The American Red Cross has commissioned a new public service advertising campaign to raise money in the holiday season by showing how the organization helps people facing problems...
View ArticleWhy you need to gauge your human capital
Reuters: The end of the year is a good time to illuminate your personal financial situation in a different way. Instead of focusing exclusively on financial capital – how much money you have...
View ArticleAdvice is given to help kids cope with the Connecticut school shooting
Examiner: The Connecticut school shooting is one of the most horrible tragedies in American history. It is very important to be very careful with how you approach your children in discussing this...
View ArticleCounseling center cares for people with ‘complicated grief’
The Washington Post: Cindi Day cheered as the bus carrying 6-year-old Tai-Vaughn Moore home from camp pulled up. The sole guardian of her grandson, she hadn’t found it easy to surrender him even for...
View ArticleAgreed, Baby Pandas Are Cute. But Why?
NPR: Xiao Liwu made his public debut Thursday at the San Diego Zoo. Fans crowded around the exhibit, their camera lenses extended, hoping to catch a glimpse of the 5-month-old giant panda cub. If...
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