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Keep Your Eye on the Path

In her recent blog post, Susan Blackmore raises questions that have fascinated me for over a quarter of a century. Read More

By Daniel Kahneman—Historians of science have often noted that at any given time scholars in a particular field tend to share basic assumptions about their subject. Social scientists are no exception; they rely on a view of human nature that provides the background of most discussions of specific behaviors but is rarely questioned. Read More

The Intuitive Meeting

By Daniel Kahneman—My current understanding of judgment and decision making has been shaped by psychological discoveries of recent decades. However, I trace the central ideas to the lucky day in 1969 when I asked a colleague to speak as a guest to a seminar I was teaching in the Department of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Read More

When You're the Difficult Person

If you’re consistently annoyed by (and annoying to) a select few—congratulations, you’re human. Knowing the person or situation that sets you off is half the battle. Read More

The Power of Intuition

Every author, I suppose, has in mind a setting in which readers of his or her work could benefit from having read it. Mine is the proverbial office water-cooler, where opinions are shared and gossip is exchanged. Read More

Fifty Shades Minus 49

We are talking about a book series that women are reading behind closed-doors. Why are they drawn to this? Simple. It is about sex. Read More

Fear Thyself?

Not only are homophobic individuals more likely to harbor unacknowledged inclinations towards the same sex. The divergence between what they say they want and what they truly desire may derive from having been denied their own autonomy in childhood. Read More

The Secret Novelist

Lawyers are secret novelists. Not all of them, but most. I know this because of all of the writing workshops I’ve been in that were full of lawyers. But it’s not just lawyers that are secret novelists. Every other person has a novel in a drawer somewhere. Read More

Is Dance “The Next Wave” in Cognitive Neuroscience?

In the last 10 years, music's status within cognitive neuroscience has moved from being a fringe area to a topic of central interest to neuroscientists. Dance seems poised to be "the next wave" in cognitive neuroscience. Read More

A Second Take on Swedish Parents

As a Swedish parent, allow me to correct a PT blogger's summer-vacation observations about kids and parents in Scandinavia. Read More

To the Contrary: A Reply to Sax on the Dangers of Single-Sex Schooling

The article we published last week in Science has received much attention, and for good reason. Contrary to what Leonard Sax has led many parents, teachers, and principals to believe, scientific studies have all concluded that single-sex schooling is not more effective than coeducational schooling. Read More

Pseudoscience in Sax on Sex

Gender segregation in schools is not supported by the voluminous existing research that compares single-sex to coeducational academic outcomes. Yet PT blogger Leonard Sax disavows science to advocate single-sex education. Read More

Brotherly Love

Jeffery Kluger begins his latest book, The Sibling Effect, with a tale of sibling survival. In an all for one, one for all attempt at deceiving their ornery father, Kluger and his three brothers devised a plan they called the scatter drill. Read More

Finding Christopher

I spotted him first, as I sat at the red light outside the coffee shop. Advantage me: I had seen his photo on MySpace, so I knew what I was looking for. After all this time, he probably wouldn’t even recognize me. Read More

Aging and the Good Earth

People who are physically active during their leisure hours may well be biologically younger. Read More

An Apology from Psychology Today

Last week, a blog post about race and appearance by Satoshi Kanazawa was published--and promptly removed--from this site. We deeply apologize for the pain and offense that this post caused. Read More

Conflict Happens

We all get angry, but expressing it is not important. Anger is always informative. It tells us that something is up. Once we learn how to steer around those depth charges and go for the connection we are moving in right direction, toward resolution. Read More

Announcing: The PT Psyku Challenge

Turn on the creative machinery. Amp up the wit. Rise to the PT challenge! Read More

The King's True Trauma

Therapist Fred Wooverton, Ph.D., on the Academy Award Winning film. Read More

Daring to Be Ourselves

Marianne Schnall, founder of feminist.com, on powerful women. Read More

10 Hard Truths About Marriage

#1 There will be one disagreement in your marriage that will never be resolved--and you will never agree on what it is! The earlier you identify and accept it, the better. Encourage your partner to do the same with his or her complaint. Read More

Maria Shriver Raises Awareness of Alzheimer's Disease

In her final year as California's First Lady, Maria Shriver turns public attention to Alzheimer's advocacy at her influential California Governor & First Lady's Conference on Women. Reflecting on an interview with Shriver, author and Feminist.com founder Marianne Schnall explores the personal stories and experiences behind Shriver's decision. Read More

Unnamable and Unnamed: A Personal Reflection on Diagnosis

By Susan Rudnick, LCSW Read More

The Dark Side of Boys

By Tarah Knaresboro

Director Steve Rosen had no desire to make a film about childhood sexual abuse. He and co-director Terri DeBono have made many documentaries, but their usual topics have clear solutions and hopeful endings. Male sexual abuse, on the other hand, felt pretty bleak. Their film Boyhood Shadows was recently released in DVD. Read More

Push "1" for Economic Recovery

Before APS (automated phone systems), millions of people with chipper, friendly voices used to greet your call and efficiently handle your needs. People who worked, then went out and bought cars and clothes and dinners. They paid taxes and mortgages. Read More

Top Strategies for Handling a Bully

No, it's not just boys being boys, or kids being kids. It takes a special breed of person to cause pain to others. Kids, parents, and school authorities take notice: Here are the top research-based strategies for dealing with bullies. Read More

"No Kidding, Me Too": The Long Reach of Mental Illness

In his new documentary, Soprano's alum Joe Pantoliano shows the impact of mental illness on patients and families alike. Read More

Haiti Living Hell

Even if you can't find the language to describe your thoughts and feelings, even if you think you've lost your voice, try. The words are somewhere inside of you. Read More

Willem Dafoe on Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe's remarkable range as an actor has earned him acclaim both as the villain and as the good guy. I spoke to him about his acting method. Read More

Sexual Healing

Does watching and making explicit sex tapes make it harder for a person to open oneself up to true love? That's the question I had to weigh as I wrote a play—which opened yesterday at Theater 3 in Manhattan—about the experiences of a pair of 1960s sex therapists. Read More

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Hara Estroff Marano is Editor at Large of Psychology Today and writes the magazine's advice column, Unconventional Wisdom. She is also the author of A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting.

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