psychology
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Is 30 the New 20?
My older sister is a 30ish, single, professional woman who lives in Chicago with two roommates fitting the same description.…
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Is Life Still Good After Boston?
I’m currently enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Pennsylvania in positive psychology, the study of human well-being.…
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How Virtual Superpowers Foster Real-World Humanitarianism
From CNN.com to obscure academic journals, it is hard these days to avoid discourse on the effect that playing violent…
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Are Women Who Say “Sorry” Weaker?
Who apologizes more, men or women?
According to a highly circulated study from 2010, which has resurfaced recently in a…
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What Is Love, Anyway?
In her new book Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become, the psychologist Barbara…
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Self-Help vs. Shakespeare: Which Is Better Therapy?
Reading challenging passages of old-fashioned literature and poetry “light up” your brain more than reading the same concepts translated into…
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Can’t We Just Be Friends?
Earlier this week an amazing article appeared in the New York Times detailing a longstanding friendship between a man and…
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There’s More to Life Than Being Happy
In my latest piece for the Atlantic, “There’s More to Life Than Happiness,” I write about a new study that examines the difference…
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New Year’s Resolution: Be Yourself
The new year is upon us, and most of us are considering a wide array of potential resolutions to make.…
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A Superhero’s Calling
In two earlier posts, I described how Spider-Man and Batman can offer some career development life lessons to nonsuperheroes like…
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