ExperiMentations

Reflections on the human condition.

Grant Hilary Brenner MD, FAPA

What Parenting Styles Set Kids Up for Emotional Abuse?

New research examines whether certain parenting approaches raise or lower a child's vulnerability for later entering into an abusive relationship.

How To Get What You Need from Customer Service

The customer is always right … or not? Here's how to use emotional intelligence to optimize your consumer experience.

Impact of COVID-19 on Relationship Conflict and Sexuality

New couples research enhances our understanding.

Personality Profiles of Drivers Who Get Distracted by Their Phones

New research on why people take unnecessary risks using phones while driving, and how to reduce the danger.

7 Tips for Dolphins Who Swim With Sharks

Being empathic is a super-power, but it can present challenges in a rough world. Being properly equipped allows us to have our cake and eat it too.

6 Ways to Make Lemonade Out of Lemons

Improve executive function by nipping self-sabotage in the bud. Early detection creates windows of opportunity.

The Prisoner's Dilemma Illustrated

Brain Sync, Personality and Group Decision-Making

New research looks at brain function during individual and group Prisoner's Dilemma scenarios to better understand the role of personality, brain sync, and moral decision-making.

Introducing the Dark Empath

New research identifies people high in empathy and darkness. Is it the best of both worlds?

5 Keys to Letting Go

Recognizing pathological needs is hard, but is the first step toward relief from holding on when it no longer serves a purpose.

COVID Stress Syndrome: What It Is and Why It Matters

Emerging research defines a unique constellation, connecting risks with health and illness, coping, stressors, and key COVID-related factors.

Contribute Now: Study of Post Traumatic Growth in COVID-19

Please take a few minutes to participate in this academically-approved research study. We need your help in gaining insight into stress and resilience during pandemics.

The Psychology of Cancel Culture

Should we Marie Kondo the culture, or is there another way?

6 Key Points About Fatherhood

Having a steady sense of self, balanced with other key factors, helps one navigate the uncertainties of life while cherishing the joy.

6 Basic Self-Reflective Questions

Refreshing and timely ways to think about familiar issues before it's too late.

Guns, Suicide, and the American Psyche

Guns are beloved by many Americans, part of our basic rights and culture. A new 12.2 year research study of 26.3 million people re-defines the gun-suicide connection.

The Surprising Consequences of How Narcissists Process Pain

Knowing how narcissists deal with pain helps us know how to deal with narcissists. New research provides key insights.

Is Self-Compassion Required for Human Survival?

New research explores the broad relevance of self-compassion as a basic human concept.

6 Factors That Block Friendship

New research identifies the reasons people may have trouble making friends.

Brain Activity of Bodily Symptoms in Anxiety Disorders

Neuroscience research sheds light on why bodily discomfort is common in anxiety, with discussion of avenues for relief and resolution.

How Parents Can Turn Their Children Into Narcissists

New research connects specific parenting approaches with maladaptive personality development.

Attachment, Borderline, and Transference-Focused Therapy

New research defines paths from insecure to secure attachment.

How Authenticity Eases Social Rejection

New research explores the impact of being in touch with our core values.

What Can 9/11 Teach Us About Mental Health for COVID-19?

Disaster mental health experts share learning in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect May Be a Statistical Illusion

Sophisticated research suggests that self-assessment accuracy is more stable over time than believed. The DK effect may be exaggerated.

8 Challenges to Self-Forgiveness

Sometimes, forgiving oneself means swimming against the current when other people aren't on the same page. Pace yourself, and prepare.

Virtual Therapy: 9 New Lessons for Patients and Therapists

Coronavirus has catapulted therapy into the virtual realm. There are drawbacks but also benefits. What can we learn from therapy's sudden pivot to teletherapy?

7 Keys to Making the Most of Lockdown

When life gives you lemons, plant lemon trees. Without being pressured, make the most of the opportunities offered by adversity.

Fire Drill for the Apocalypse or Wake-Up Call?

Seven lessons to learn from dealing with a global threat together.

What Makes Unhappy Couples Stay Together?

Research on attachment style reveals the underlying factors which can keep people in unsatisfying relationships long after the expiration date.

Is Social Safeness a Basic Emotional State?

Emerging research makes plain the third dimension of emotion, an inherently social experience we may not fully appreciate until it is clearly identified.

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