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

Whenever someone starts to quote post-modernism / social construction theory to me, I point them in the direction of Alan Sokal. In the...

Adolescents require 8-10 hours of sleep at night for optimal health, according to sleep experts, yet more than 70 percent of high school...

Young people are often expected to attend university to improve their future economic status. In the UK, only 13 per cent of jobs...

In my first book-Drug Induced- I demonstrated that opiate overdose was rarely ever linked to drug purity. Reviewing research and...

As they say, money does not buy you happiness but poverty buys you nothing. What is the best way to spend money to increase your...

New research sheds light on how people decide whether behavior is moral or immoral. The findings could serve as a framework for informing...

Attendance at a nursery/crèche staffed by professionals may be linked to better psychological development than being looked after by...

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

New research from an international team led by Oxford University's Department of Zoology and the National-Kapodistrian University of...

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

Ever wonder why flat earthers, birthers, climate change and Holocaust deniers stick to their beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence...

Th Conversation has published a fascinating review of the research in how early averse childhood experiences can accelerate the aging...

New Northwestern University research analyzing the ways children's gender narratives reinforce or disrupt gender inequality found that...

Smiling does not necessarily indicate that we are happy, according to new research at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). It is...

For the first time, Temple University researchers have used machine learning to rank the most important determinants of future affluence....

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...