In discussing interventions such as Motivational Interviewing, I always draw attention to the "music" of statements. It is not simply what people say but th...

Babies are not blank slates. They come with a lot of pre-programming that is awaiting activation. A great example of this is language. Newborn babies are ...

A huge gap in thinking about child development is peer-to-peer relationships. Humans are pack animals and children immediately identify with other children ...

In lectures and training on Motivational Interviewing I stress how the emotional brain does not speak to us but through us. The casual words we use are not ...

When people think of "personality," they are likely to think of traits such as warmth or extraversion. For example, a person with high extraversion tends to ...

We intuitively use more emotional language to enhance our powers of persuasion, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the As...