Some ‘thinks’ only a psychologist can believe!

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.

How many ways can we speak of that which plagues our patients?

Diagnosis as an expanding front beyond the DSM tradition...

The what’s, why’s, and when’s of media use by kids

APA guidelines on media and teens

Useful thoughts for those working with couples

What does a-lot of checking in really mean, yours vs ours financially, use of COVID as excuse, and the utility of therapist pain in couples work