Today’s Essential Reads Social Life Snoob: The Awkward Art of Embracing Silence Maggie RoweonNovember 12, 2024inBodhisattva Wannabe A Personal Perspective: Do you hate those awkward moments in conversation (snoobs)? I do too, but I'm learning to love them. ...
Yes, I’m still amazed that we avoid the subject of real-life gender differences. Of course, it’s not politically correct in today’s culture to say that men and women are fundamentally different, but that doesn’t make it any less true. Just ask any man or woman who is or ever ha...
To me, all these things seem like they were just yesterday. Which is probably why it comes as a bit of a shock to see a picture of Britney Spears today. She doesn’t look like the 22-year-old we remember, which we mistakenly remember as being just a few years ago. But Britney is...
Clearly the process toward a mass killing is complicated. As one reporter summed it up, “So far, however, his profile — including a history of war injuries, financial pressures, disappointment about being passed over for promotion, brushes with law enforcement and a wife who went throughpregn...
Today’s blog is a special treat; it’s a guest blog from Dr. Edson Filho, lecturer in sport and exercise psychology at the University of Central Lancashire (view his profile here). Edson’s research agenda centres on peak performance experiences and high-performing teams. Edson explains: “...
I’m willing to bet that you read Veterans Today, which was also horrible this week.Victoria Jackson has jumped the stupid shark. Again. She may in fact be mentally ill at this point, but I can’t say that she’s not just hateful. She says talk show hosts were briefed for 6 hours...
Today, misinformation campaigns can leverage digital infrastructure that is unparalleled in its reach. The internet reaches billions of individuals and enables senders to tailor persuasive messages to the specific psychological profiles of individual users11,12. Moreover, social media users’ exposure to ...
But that’s not the case today. Sensationalism has taken over journalism, driven by the need for profitability by showing ads to an increasingly polarized audience. In the process, it’s dragged the narratives we need to make sense of the world to the extremes that lie on either end of co...
Though we hear the phrase "not guilty by reason of insanity" a lot in fiction, Blum points out that in reality it is not generally a successful plea. Even today, very few criminals are found to be insane, even when they've done things that are as beyond the pale as Fish's cannibalis...
Today, there is a lot of interest in charismatic or transformational leadership. This represents a leadership style that enables the leader to exercise diffuse and intense influence over the beliefs, values, behaviour and per- formance of others (House, transformational leadership a style used by ...