Some ‘thinks’ only a psychologist can believe!

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 

Saplosky and for the determinists to be careful what you wish for

The counter argument to free will and the extension of deterministic perspective  relative to prediction...

MISBELIEF/Ariely’s new book and the role of religion as justification for status quo

Danile Ariely’s chilling account of conspiracy and its impact on his professional life and the role of religion in justifying ones social position

Keeping it real and balanced...back to psychedelics

Forgive the return, but want to keep it on point relative to previous concerns expressed.