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To Stop Procrastinating, Look to Science of Mood Repair
The Wall Street Journal: Procrastinators, take note: If you’ve tried building self-discipline and you’re still putting things off, maybe you need to try something different. One new approach: Check your mood. Often, procrastinators attempt to
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Why Me? Perceptions of Justice Influence Pain Experiences
Life has its many twists and turns – to make sense of all of it, people sometimes take a “just world” approach, reasoning that people get more or less what they deserve. But there are
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How to Keep Your Resolutions
The New York Times: IT’S that time of year again. Maybe it’s your waistline you’re worried about, or maybe it’s the smoking habit you just can’t seem to kick. To improve your chances of keeping
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Inside the Psychologist’s Studio: Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura, who has received both the APS William James Fellow Award and the APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, is one of the most influential psychological scientists in history. Bandura was trained as a
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You Can’t Take It With You, but You Still Want More
The New York Times: All work and no play may just be a result of “mindless accumulation.” So say scholars behind research, published in the journal Psychological Science in June, that shows a deeply rooted
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Dare to be an optimist!
The Globe and Mail: It’s easy to overdose on the news. Take too much, and you’ll swear the human race is in terminal decline. Today, we interrupt our regular programming of doom and gloom to
