Drinking occurs in a complex set of social interactions and expectations. An interesting study looked at how a range of people took the...

Two recent studies caught my eye on body language. In the first study the eye movements of of heterosexual students were tracked whilst...

How many times have you heard people deride counselling based interventions as just "talk." Interesting advances in brain imaging has...

Decision making is at the heart of many of the interventions I teach, like Motivational Interviewing.However people have different styles...

In lectures regarding the functions of different human emotions, the topic that interests most participants is when I discuss the role of...

Ever felt like a big fish in a small pond in the work place? Recent research has cast light on this work place experience where the...

I really loved the book Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner. In response to US Intelligence agencies failings, the...

In training and lectures I often discuss how the brain processes information in two different ways. This includes the pre-frontal cortex...

Biases are very important to the human brain. They spare us the time and effort from having to think too much about everything all the...

In training in Motivational Interviewing and Solution Focused Therapy I often draw participants attention towards observing body language...

I am a big fan of Prof Dan Gilbert's research on happiness. In what must come to be regarded as a classic paper, he along with Elizabeth...

Emerging research suggests that the same area of the brain that is responsible for empathy is linked to the individual's ability to...