I just read in New Scientist magazine that over 95% of people who attempt to lose weight fail. That’s a depressing statistic. But some people succeed over the long run….
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You may think that psychology is bunk. Some of it is. But what I am about to tell you is golden, if you want to make a big, difficult change….
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When you want people to give you their blood, you are wise to use psychology, whether you are the Red Cross or a vampire. While I give a blood or…
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There seems to be no limit to the objects that can be the subjects of phobias. Phobias exist when individuals feel great fear or disgust when exposed to some particular…
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Australian schools don’t smack pupils anymore. As years pass, fewer and fewer parents smack their children. I was never punished at all as a child, except that my mother tried…
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Is your life filled with shoulds? As in: I should have gone to work out, you should have come when you said you would, life should be easier than it…
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Charles Darwin has a city named after him. Why? He developed the astoundingly valuable theory of evolution by natural selection. He is widely hailed as the greatest biologist of all…
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Last week as I walked home from the University of New England, I saw large green garden-debris bins in front of three houses next to mine. I felt an urge…
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Do self-help books actually help? They can, if a person does what the books suggest. A student and I surveyed over a hundred adults who had recently read a psychological…
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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…
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