Some ‘thinks’ only a psychologist can believe!

And the pendulum swings...

There exists reasonable discussion qualifying progressive aspects of education, parenting and therapy: Lukianoff, Haidt and Shrier

Habituation: slip/sliding into what we ought not...

The reduction in amygdala arousal associated with habitation  and the costs personal, social, and political...

Cultural competency from a pragmatic perspective

A single article from the Journal of History and Philosophy of Psychology speaks to the wedding of the culture of psychology to the permutations in the ‘culture’ of others

Kids and temperament

A review of the early research and its condensation regarding personality/temperment types in children

Back to tapas...

Socio-economic benefits for kids, social media and mental health, emotions and link to well-being, mice and the benefit of psychedelic experience for them, ADHD and political activity, sober vs alive in drug treatment debate, placebo revisit, and (here he goes) self-care re-doubt

Words of wisdom, sort of, from a couple podcast/bloggers

End of the year commentary on life and times: Peter Attia and Michael Shermer

Arthur Brooks and mood...Mad scientists. cheerleaders, poets and judges

The use of PANAS in expanding upon inherent mood tendency

Empirically-validated evidence regarding Santa Claus

Psychologists have searched for years for empirical evidence regarding the possible existence of Santa Claus...this is one more brick in that wall!

Watch out! Don’t Look! Trigger warnings ‘warning’

The paradoxical effect of trigger warnings and the impact of lockdown drills on children’s well-being.

STI/no not that meaning, but judging books by covers and the limits and latest on sleep!

Spontaneous Trait Inference: the book/cover judgements we make and the limits to systemic prejudices involved...sleep and how sleep ought be considered in all clinical presentations