Some ‘thinks’ only a psychologist can believe!

Contaminated Mindware...

A metaphor for off-track or less than logical thought and pursuit of treatment protocol for psychedelic integration...trip killers and trip expectancies/placebo in ketamine experiment...

Left and right in Canada...with detour into AI

There has been a-lot on the liberal/conservative personality differences South of the border. Recently research in Canada has further articulated the character distinctions related to right or left leaning here at home. 

The joys of dopamine...

In contrast to ‘dopamine fasting’ we have dopamine channeling!

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