In training I emphasis that the client's goals must be detailed. This is because the human brain gains perspective by detail. When...

Perhaps nothing illustrates my general thesis that laughter is not about happiness but power more than the Dad Joke. The cheesy often...

Working with trauma is hard. Being exposed to the pain and suffering others can have significant impact on us as a worker and as a human...

Without realizing it we make use of emotion regulation strategies all the time and they are crucial for everyday life. This is the...

People who empathize easily with others do not necessarily understand them well. To the contrary: Excessive empathy can even impair...

New research shows a simple reason why even the most intelligent, complex brains can be taken by a swindler's story -- one that upon a...

Is there such a thing as an evil personality type? This is a challenging question for many in the field. By and large, people who are...

For those who have attended lectures or training with me will know, I am very interested in laughter as an emotion. Particularly how...

It's often been said that the eyes are the window to the soul, revealing what we think and how we feel. Now, new research reveals that...

Research on how adults deal with adversity has been dominated by studies claiming the most common response is uninterrupted and stable...

Moral dilemmas are often critical feature of working with clients in everyday practice, especially when they become stuck in difficult...

I love what moral dilemmas can tell us about our brains and how we make decisions. This is a great example of a moral dilemma which pits...

While we can "decide" to think about certain things, other information -- including activities we have learned like counting -- can enter...

Researchers have conducted one of the largest surveys of people's first memories, finding that nearly 40 per cent of people had a first...

Everyone's so busy these days that it is easy to think you need to schedule time to have fun. But be careful about how you do that, said...

I hugely admire Prof Dan Gilbert's research. You will see numerous references to his intriguing research on the nature of happiness on...

In lectures on anxiety and trauma I describe how the re-writing of memories can alter the emotional response we experience from...

In teaching Motivational Interviewing I describe how we need to listen to the emotional emphasis of the client's statements rather than...

I am a big fan of Prof Walter Mischel and his wonderfully simple but hugely influential Marshmallow Tests (you can see some original...

Practitioners of a particular persuasion often take um-bridge at the idea that too much parental involvement can be a bad thing. This is...