While technologies create seamless payments online and at department stores, the result is a kind of instant gratification that may harm our greater sense of fulfillment.
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So I thought I’d share with you my contribution to a symposium sponsored by a fairly conservative organization on what to do to improve the teaching of the humanities. The other contributions […]
Two weeks ago, after turning onto Route 10 from Santa Monica, a truck sped by in the center lane. A hand truck flew from the back as it hit a […]
Retirement looks a lot like work today. Studies, surveys and individual behaviors indicate that the next wave of retirees will be reporting for work longer than they or their employers […]
In 1837, the Royal Danish Society sponsored an essay contest, asking participants to tackle the following question: Are the source and foundation of morals to be looked for in an […]
By the time you finish reading this short article, I hope you agree with me so much that you’ll join me on my mission against “dieting” — at least the way the multi-billion dollar weight loss industry has been pushing it on everyone for years.
Older people are actually happier than younger people.
Here’s what two excellent sociologists have concluded about marriage today: Thanks to falling working-class wages, the outsourcing of American manufacturing, the thinning of company benefits, and the rise of part-time […]
Perhaps the most powerful contribution of cognitive psychology to human understanding has been its careful mapping out of the many ways in which we self-deceive. Our minds are expert confabulators, […]
In the early 1850s, Daniel McCallum, the General Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railroad, had a problem. At the time, the New York and Erie Railway was the […]
A pet peeve that I have in the context of happiness research is that it’s called happiness research.
Gay lesbian teenagers, LGBT teenagers are lied to about what it is to be a gay or lesbian or bi or trans.
The ultimatum game is the ultimate test of fairness, and chimpanzees passed the test by going for the fair options.
Talent isn’t everything. In fact, some of the most robust findings to come out of developmental psychology over the past decades have identified self-control – the ability to harness, train, […]
The latest research is showing that kids who plan their own schedules, set their own work actually evaluate their own progress are actually building up their brains. Their cortexes are […]
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New data on age and well-being suggests, despite conflicting conclusions reached by past studies, that happiness does generally increase as we get older.
Lower your expectations now. You’ll find yourself much more satisfied by the end.
Until the late 20th century, Western approaches to mental well-being focused mainly on treatments directly affecting brain function (via surgery, electric shock or pharmaceuticals, for example) or insight-oriented psychotherapy intended […]
As wealth rises in China, so does its number of emigrants. It is estimated that nearly two-thirds of the country’s nouveau riche use their funds to leave the country.
Is there something left of the human that can’t be dehumanized and what is this power to humanize or to dehumanize?
Stop harking so much on the past. What’s done is done.
Opposition to the ideas of others is too often framed in terms of cynicism, resulting in the objector being labeled as steadfastly against action, progress, change, and other forms taken to be universally good.
Dear CEO The vote in Washington requiring labels for foods with GMO ingredients is coming up. You’ll lose. Even if you win the vote, you will lose the war…because […]
A new report shows worrisome incompetence among Air Force nuclear missile launch officers.
Between smart phones, smart pads, apps, cloud computing, and the myriad of other technological advances and transformations occurring today, many company leaders are wondering how to navigate it all. Historically, […]
As an artist I’m more excited then scared about how it’s going to affect the business model or my bottom line.
Here are some of the my reflections, based on more than three decades of teaching, on how to think about the place of liberal education in America. That place, for […]
“My client is not in a hurry,” architect and sculptor Antoni Gaudí famously responded to someone asking when his last masterpiece, the Basílica de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain […]
“We’re seeing an unprecedented epidemic of depression in our society,” says Dr. Andrew Weil, “More people are being diagnosed with depression than ever, including millions of children. The latest statistics […]
So let me remind you that The Atlantic does the best job of popularizing scientific studies. For one thing, it’s remarkably unideological. Both the left and the right—and the libertarians and the […]