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Do People Like To Think?
NPR: When I was a kid, I used to lie in bed at night listening to Mets games on the transistor radio, or to the top 40. Sunday evenings were hard because there was no
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Why Your Brain Wants To Help One Child In Need — But Not Millions
NPR: Why do people sometimes give generously to a cause — and other times give nothing at all? That’s a timely question, because humanitarian groups fighting the Ebola outbreak need donations from people in rich
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Your Positive Thinking Could Be Holding You Back
New York Magazine: The notion that simply imagining our deepest wishes coming true will help us attain them is everywhere these days. Best-selling books like The Secret and Chicken Soup for the Soul teach us that we can make good
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Magic May Lurk Inside Us All
The New York Times: How many words does it take to know you’re talking to an adult? In “Peter Pan,” J. M. Barrie needed just five: “Do you believe in fairies?” Such belief requires magical
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The Problem With Positive Thinking
The New York Times: MANY people think that the key to success is to cultivate and doggedly maintain an optimistic outlook. This belief in the power of positive thinking, expressed with varying degrees of sophistication
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Actually, People Still Like to Think
The New Yorker: This past July, Science published a paper with an alarming conclusion: most people would rather give themselves an electric shock than be alone with their thoughts. A slew of news stories followed, seizing on this dramatic
