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Enjoying Nature There were no psychologists to right the boat the last time we went overboard for … 2020/08/04 Biopsychosocial, Teaching 2020-08-04 11:01:55
Moods We make up a lot of what we see and hear. Most situations are ambiguous. … 2020/07/28 Biopsychosocial, Translational 2020-07-28 10:15:52
Thinking About the Future A global pandemic doomed a lot of social and commercial predictions for 2020, but the … 2020/07/21 Biopsychosocial, Teaching 2020-07-21 08:45:36
Games The blog post on “Play” would have been a good time to bring up game … 2020/07/14 Biopsychosocial, Teaching 2020-07-14 09:23:16
Why Am I Always Cold? Are you feeling cold? That’s not a problem, in principle. We all have a heater … 2020/07/07 Biopsychosocial, Measurement 2020-07-07 08:58:39
Mistakes For any one of us, there is just one mistake: a violation of the plan, … 2020/06/30 Measurement, Teaching, Uncategorized 2020-06-30 09:44:01
Parenting Parenting invites dichotomies: Not only are there two kinds of parent, mother and father, but … 2020/06/23 Biopsychosocial, Teaching 2020-06-23 09:27:41
Musical Rhythm Some people cannot follow a beat. Such beat deafness, a form of amusia, appears in … 2020/06/16 Biopsychosocial, Teaching 2020-06-16 11:21:02
A Better Night’s Sleep If you tend to be a target for ads about everyday-carry tools, as I am, … 2020/06/09 Biopsychosocial, Measurement 2020-06-09 10:40:48
Where Do Beliefs Come From? Among Americans, 98 percent of scientists believe that humans evolved over time, and 81 percent … 2020/06/02 Teaching, Translational 2020-06-02 09:52:25
Addiction Prominent psychologist Jordan Peterson has undergone recent treatment for a drug habit. He has found … 2020/05/26 Biopsychosocial, Translational 2020-05-26 09:58:18
Emotional Intensity Some people like the thrill of falling from a great height, while many others find … 2020/05/19 Biopsychosocial, Teaching 2020-05-19 09:11:04
Compared to What? The psychology curriculum has changed since some of you left the classroom. Not only has … 2020/05/12 Measurement, Teaching 2020-05-12 09:17:50
Eye Movements Our ability to see with our eyes hardly attracts the attention that the eyes capture … 2020/05/05 Biopsychosocial, It’s a feature 2020-05-05 09:01:38
Stress and Depression How much is too much of anything? We often judge poorly. A youngster fails to … 2020/04/28 It’s a feature, Translational 2020-04-28 10:09:54
Taking Stock With the topics I’ve introduced so far, I have tried to show how biological, psychological … 2020/04/21 Measurement, Teaching 2020-04-21 11:00:35
Cheering, Talking, Singing For many of us, the voice is an unreliable tool. Through inflammation, stress, injury, and … 2020/04/14 Biopsychosocial, Teaching 2020-04-14 09:51:41
Left Hand, Right Hand Years ago, William Calvin wrote a popular book attributing the evolution of right-handedness to the way it … 2020/04/07 Biopsychosocial, Translational 2020-04-07 09:20:28
Mental Effort The absentminded professor will remind everyone of mental effort, distracted by a big idea from … 2020/03/31 Teaching, Translational 2020-03-31 05:37:07
Loneliness Most of us experience loneliness. The need to be with others helps us survive, but … 2020/03/24 Biopsychosocial, Translational 2020-03-24 10:16:49
Reaction Time Paraphrasing Robert Benchley, we may say that there are two kinds of people in the … 2020/03/17 Biopsychosocial, Measurement 2020-03-17 10:26:12
Forgetting Even walking through a door will make you forget—unless the door opens onto a toilet, … 2020/03/10 It’s a feature, Teaching 2020-03-10 13:14:31
Behavioral Immunity Once again a new disease is threatening us, this time a new coronavirus. We’re familiar … 2020/03/03 Teaching, Translational 2020-03-03 09:27:51
Measuring Pain Is your pain the same as my pain? And how much worse is a toothache … 2020/02/25 Biopsychosocial, Measurement 2020-02-25 13:14:41
Play Are you pro-play or anti-play? After recent concern about study crowding out exercise, schools are … 2020/02/18 Biopsychosocial, Teaching 2020-02-18 08:56:40
Resilience It’s remarkable how some other people (and animals, too, including pets) seem to be resistant to stress more than … 2020/02/12 Biopsychosocial, Translational 2020-02-12 15:00:39
Navigation You can use psychology for navigating. But it occurs to me that if we analyze … 2020/02/05 Biopsychosocial, Translational 2020-02-05 12:06:24
Weather, Sun, Moon and Our Behavior After the earth cooled below the boiling point of water about 4 billion years ago, … 2020/01/29 Biopsychosocial, Myths 2020-01-29 09:20:46
Fatigue It’s important to see our evolutionary traits as features sometimes, instead of bugs. Evolution has … 2020/01/27 Biopsychosocial, It’s a feature, Teaching 2020-01-27 11:30:52
Creating Flavors Flavor arises as much from psychology as from physiology. The brain constructs flavor, which is … 2020/01/20 Biopsychosocial, Translational 2020-01-20 09:45:37
Boredom Why, when we should be paying attention to something repetitive, do we get bored? Being … 2020/01/20 Biopsychosocial, It’s a feature, Teaching 2020-01-20 08:00:55
Confusion Why does learning involve confusion? Why don’t we just get gradually stronger as we learn, … 2020/01/16 It’s a feature, Teaching, Translational 2020-01-16 10:50:16