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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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…
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What are the easiest psychological disorders to eliminate? Specific phobias. They involve intense, irrational fear and avoidance of some object or situation, such as spiders or heights or blood. What…
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