by jmalouff | Nov 30, 2018 | Human Thinking and Behavior, Mental health problems
This newspaper article by Becca Thew includes an interview of me. How to stop procrastinating today… rather than next Monday You have an assignment due in a few days. You have had a lot going on and this one just kind of slipped through the cracks. We’ve all been...
by jmalouff | Nov 29, 2018 | Mental health problems, Positive psychology, Well-Being
If you are like most people, you have taken many shots to boost your immunity to organisms such as those that cause measles and mumps. Every year I get the flu vaccine. Is it possible to get a vaccination against psychological stressors? Yes. Read on....
by jmalouff | Nov 29, 2018 | Human Thinking and Behavior
The first time I drove a car I was 11 years old. One of my older brothers wanted to run in the country to aid his training to play football. He thought it would be boring to run down a dirt road and back, so he invited me to drive his car a mile down the road and wait...
by jmalouff | Nov 29, 2018 | Human Thinking and Behavior, Positive psychology, Well-Being
Years ago I played on a volleyball team with a university student who submitted every assignment as late as possible. She lost 20% on every assignment by submitting two weeks late. If she had submitted one day later, she would have received a 0 for the...
by jmalouff | Nov 29, 2018 | Human Thinking and Behavior
I once worked for a nice fellow who used the word “flag” very, very often. He flagged this and that and commented that others had flagged something or other. He used the word to mean many things — I never knew which meaning he was applying in a particular statement....