Families have had to face the changes forced by the pandemic and cope with the new norm. How can we keep our families active and happy when normal life has changed so much? Dr. Chen Chen from Xiangya Hospital, China and Dr. Bao Lixian, a psychologist from Canada...
As a psychologist, I believe the solution is by helping eachindividualbecome more aware of his or her own cognitive biases and tribalist excesses, and how those biases perpetuate cycles of conflict. To keep our tribalist impulses in check, I believe we must regularly ask ourselves dif...
Several studies — many conducted by psychologist Igor Grossmann at Canada’s University of Waterloo — have found that practicing illeism to defeat rumination makes us wiser. According to Grossmann, wise reasoning includes intellectual humility, recognition of uncertainty and change, others’ ...
Recent evidence has suggested that valuing happiness to an extreme degree has a potential downside in Western but not in East Asian countries. We tested how valuing happiness relates to well-being in mainland China (N = 721) and Western countries (UK, US, and Canada) (N = 349) ...
the study of the human mind has become a daunting scientific pursuit to unlock the secrets of the processing unit known as the human brain. Although there appears to be little interest by the scientific community in the possibility of a higher-level or spiritual aspect of a living being, I’...
Canada where she served as Acting Chief Psychologist in a medium-security penitentiary for 400 male federal offenders. She then spent four years with the Pine River Institute, a residential treatment program for adolescents struggling with serious substance abuse, in the capacity of Wilderness ...
Several modern-day studies show that talking about yourself in the third person allows you to see past your personal biases and improve decision-making and emotional regulation.Share on X Several studies—many conducted by psychologistIgor Grossmannat Canada’s University of Waterloo—have found that...
Raising Successful KidsIvy League psychologist: How I say 'no' to my kids—and why it's crucial for them Raising Successful KidsParents who make this mistake raise ‘mentally weak children,’ says psychiatrist Raising Successful KidsI’ve studied over 200 kids—the highly successful ones hav...
On this episode, social psychologist and The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness author Jonathan Haidt joins us to discuss how social media and smartphones have dramatically transformed childhood since the early 2010s, leading to a sharp...
2020). Deliberate practice is a highly structured and focused approach to skill development, characterized by specificgoals, continuous feedback, and a significant level of effort andconcentration. It was popularized by psychologist K. Anders Ericsson, who studied how people become experts i...