Shifts in values is vital for recovery in both mental health and addictions, especially for those who experience the most complex...

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

Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with my perennial interest in the psychology of political thinking. Certainly, in these...

In a recent blog entry Problems Expand with Solutions, I described the psychological process whereby people fail to recognize progress. ...

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

It seems reasonable that people would want to maximize various aspects of life if they were given the opportunity to do so, whether it's...

Anyone who has heard me lecture or conduct training on neuroscience will know that I have always emphasized a little regarded region of...

Conspiracy theories about government officials and the institutions they represent are widespread and rooted deep in U.S. history...

I often explore challenging research findings that questions some core assumptions about human development and treatment processes. I...

A recent Pew poll suggested that people were less trustful of people who reported that they were atheists and more trustful of people who...

Ever since positing a review of the research behind the Cathy Newman vs Jordan Peterson debate, I have noticed an increasing slew of...

In an earlier post (Is Cathy Newman just WEIRD?) I suggested that university life is psychological transformative in ways which have not...

In lectures and training on human development, people are often intrigued when I discuss Johnathan Haidt's research that links the...

The Newman vs Peterson debate rumbles on online still and I remain intrigued by peoples responses to the debate. Specifically, where...

I have become increasingly interested in how people respond to moral dilemmas and what this reveals about the brain. In everyday life, I...

When brain lesions occur within the brain network responsible for morality and value-based decision-making, they can predispose a person...

Recent studies into the nature of faith have been suggesting that believers in religion are more intuitive and less analytical in their...

In lecturers I often discuss how the emotional brain takes the big decisions or hijacks the rational brain without us being aware of it. ...

Sacred values, those that really matter to us, guide individual and group decisions in life. We rarely trade off these sacred values in...

A new study using fMRI brain scanning has revealed that religious and spiritual experiences activate the brain reward circuits in much...