Some ‘thinks’ only a psychologist can believe!

Predisposition: issues in several areas which serve healing

How moral foundations may predispose to PTSD, how ACEs predispose individuals to later life pathology, what predisposes adults to getting past divorce, and biological treatment for predisposed memory loss.

Time moves quick or slow depending on age and Kahneman and co-authors concept of ’noise’ in our lives

There appears to be a fast vs. slow experience of time based upon age and our nervous systems capacity to process events around us and the impact of “noise" upon our choices-a book review, sort of.

Success and privilege-the ‘choice mindset'

How the degrees of freedom in our lives, reflected in power and privilege, bestow a belief in individual responsibility for one’s fate...

Social justice

Review of current perspective on social justice and how it can be positioned within the work we do 

Teen theme-current thought on adolescent developement

Summary of a summary article on adolescent development: how Erickson, neuroscience and  current social psychological perspective might inform practice 

A little this and a little that...

Intolerance for uncertainty potentiates political polarization, KS Pope website as a place to know/go and visit and the limits to benefits of exercise , giving psychology away(again), oops alcohol as friend of COVID, dogs are watching us and CO-2 therapy(!?!)

Latest happiest survey...

Each year countries are rated on their happiest quotient...guess who this year and a discussion of why

Latest updates on memory...

Memory and the microbiome, hypo/hyper memory, and the neuro basis of true vs false recollection of trauma...memory and resilience in kids exposed to traumatic event

Who believes their religion should be THE way things should be and religions connection to eco-awareness

The place of religion in psychology and differentiation of morality and ecological consciousness  by faith

The psychology of the social contract

How the enfranchisement or its opposite in the social contract is critical in promotion of justice and a more inclusive equitable society