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How to Stop Chasing Self-Esteem
Scientific American Mind: The more you pursue self-esteem, the more your confidence—and happiness—will recede. The following four steps will help you break the cycle. As soon as you sense that you are tense, obsessed or
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Book Review: ‘Behind the Shock Machine’ by Gina Perry
The Wall Street Journal: This year marks the 50th anniversary of Stanley Milgram’s experiments on “obedience to authority.” In 1963, two years after the Nazi Adolf Eichmann had claimed at his trial that he was
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Your Choice of Friends Can Help You Improve Your Focus
Having trouble disciplining yourself to hit the gym rather than joining colleagues for happy hour? Unable to stop chatting with your friend in the next cubicle even though a deadline is looming? Many of us
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Q&A With Dieter Wolke
Dieter Wolke is a professor in the Department of Psychology and Division of Mental Health & Wellbeing at the University of Warwick, UK. His research focuses on social and emotional development, specifically school and sibling
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Matters of the Heart: Whither the Type A Personality?
The Huffington Post: I first studied psychological science in the 1970s, and one of the most popular ideas at that time was the Type A personality. Two cardiologists, Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman, had made
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How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy
The New Yorker: No one joins Facebook to be sad and lonely. But a new study from the University of Michigan psychologist Ethan Kross argues that that’s exactly how it makes us feel. Over two