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How an Introvert Can Be Happier: Act Like an Extrovert
The Wall Street Journal: Extroverts, those outgoing, gregarious types who wear their personalities on their sleeve, are generally happier, studies show. Some research also has found that introverts, who are more withdrawn in nature, will
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Gloomy Thinking Can Be Contagious
NPR: When students show up at college in the fall, they’ll have to deal with new classes, new friends and a new environment. In many cases, they will also have new roommates — and an
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Peer Pressure for Teens Paves the Path to Adulthood
The Wall Street Journal: New studies on peer pressure suggest that teens—who often seem to follow each other like lemmings—may do so because their brains derive more pleasure from social acceptance than adult brains, and
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The Bad Habits of Good Negotiators
LinkedIn: For a good part of the past decade, I’ve taught negotiation skills to diverse audiences—Fortune 500 executives, generals in the U.S. Army and Air Force, and professional athletes in the NFL and NHL. They
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Exploring Stanley Schachter’s Legacy
Psychological scientist Stanley Schachter (1922-1997) is credited with conducting innovative research on eating behavior from the perspective of social psychology. And his externality theory of obesity — which posits that non-physiological external cues has
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Depressive Thinking Can Be Contagious
TIME: We don’t think of emotional states as passing from one person to another, but a new study suggests some depressive thoughts can go viral. Researchers studying a group of college students found that certain
