Other Interesting Stuff

• • Massive Study Flips Our Story of Addiction and the Brain (Scientific American, 7/7/25)

  • The Story You Tell Yourself Why storytelling Is the hidden bridge between meaning, purpose, and happiness (Psychology Today, 5/8/25)

  • The Impact of Problematic Pornography Use in Men (Psychology Today, 3/27/25)

  • Critical thinking is more important than ever. How can I improve my skills? (The Conversation, 3/25/25)

  • Words activate hidden brain processes shaping emotions, decisions and behavior (Medical Xpress, 1/8/25)

  • 9 unexpected things we learned about mental health and our brains in 2024 (NPR, 12/31/24)

  • The 15 most popular psychology and neuroscience studies in 2024 (PsyPost.org, 12/24/24)

  • Understanding how smiling influences relationship building during real-life conversations (Medical Xpress, 10/10/24)

  • The Vagus Nerve’s Crucial Role in Creating the Human Sense of Mind (Wired, 9/29/24)

  • Every Generation Is the Anxious Generation (Slate, 8/3/24)

  • Uncertain Selves and the Quantum-Like Fabric of Awareness (Psychology Today, 7/27/24)

  • What Is Beyond a Diagnosis? (Mad in America, 7/25/24)

  • Caring for the Mind: Insights from Buddhist Psychology (Psychology Today, 7/9/24)

  • Green space could be even better for young brains than we realised (The Guardian, 6/16/24)

  • Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning (NPR, 5/11/24)

  • Gut Microbes Influence Autism-Related Behaviors (Neuroscience News, 5/10/24)

  • Empathy is a trait that can be learned and “transmitted” (ZME Science, 3/25/24)

  • What Educators Need to Know about Generation Alpha (Ed Surge, 2/2/24)

  • What Helped—and What Didn’t Help—My Recovery (Mad in America, 1/10/24) - "Mad in America’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care in the United States ..."

  • New Mental Health Guidelines from the World Health Organization (Psychology Today, 12/6/23)

  • Do You Matter? (Psychology Today, 11/28/23)

  • Redefining Psychology in the Light of Quantum Physics (Psychology Today, 7/7/23)

  • Boys experience depression differently than girls. Here’s why that matters (Science News, 6/30/23)

  • 3 Signs That It Might Be Time to Break Up With a Therapist (Psychology Today, 5/10/23)

  • There Is an Answer to the Mental Health Crisis: Address anxiety as the driving force, not a psychological diagnosis  (Psychology Today, 5/9/23)

  • Use these 5 steps to forgive others—it can boost your happiness, says psychologist who studied forgiveness for 30 years (CNBC, 5/6/23)

  • Each of our bodies is proof of Einstein’s equation (Big Think, 4/16/23)

  • How to forgive yourself (Psyche, Undated)

  • How young people are shaking off gender binaries (BBC, 3/29/23)

  • Think yourself better: 10 rules of philosophy to live by (The Guardian, 2/4/23)

  • I’m a psychology expert in Finland, the No. 1 happiest country in the world—here are 3 things we never do (CNBC, 1/5/23)

  • How to Become a More Secure Person (Psychology Today, 6/28/22)

  • How to Live a Psychologically Rich Life (Psychology Today, 5/26/22)

  • 12 Things People Get Wrong About Being Nonbinary (Teen Vogue, 5/20/22)

  •  The Core Discovery of Neuroscience: The Mind Is Modular: Self-understanding requires us to realize that the self is not a unified whole (Psychology Today, 10/8/21)