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Building Social Confidence

Building Social Confidence

by jmalouff | Jul 22, 2024 | Emotions, Human Thinking and Behavior, Social confidence

Social confidence is valuable. It helps a person make friends, find a mate, and develop a career.  Many people have a low level of social confidence. Others perceive these individuals as unassertive, avoidant, or weak. I know about problems with social confidence...
Self-Efficacy Effects of Person-Centered Online Training in How to Help Distressed Individuals

Self-Efficacy Effects of Person-Centered Online Training in How to Help Distressed Individuals

by jmalouff | Mar 12, 2023 | Coping, Emotions, Training

Please direct correspondence regarding this article to the author, John M. Malouff, University of New England School of Psychology, Armidale NSW 2351. Email: jmalouff@une.edu.au Abstract Carl Rogers suggested specific ways of interacting with others for promoting...
Empty Chair Technique

Empty Chair Technique

by jmalouff | Feb 5, 2023 | Bereavement and Grief, Coping, Emotions, Psychotherapy

I am reading the autobiography of Billy Connolly. As a boy Billy was sexually abused for years by his father. Decades later, as his father lay dying from a stoke, Billy finally told his wife about the abuse. He broke down in tears and did not go in the hospital to see...
Coping with the Prospect of Death

Coping with the Prospect of Death

by jmalouff | Aug 1, 2021 | Bereavement and Grief, Emotions, Human Thinking and Behavior

I recently listened to a new song: Roger Ebert. I learned about the song from a Facebook post by the son of a man with a recently diagnosed deadly disease.  The song is about the last words of Roger Ebert, famous movie critic, who died in 2013. Just before...
Curiosity — Jumping the Shark

Curiosity — Jumping the Shark

by jmalouff | Mar 15, 2021 | Emotions, Human Thinking and Behavior

The scientist in me wants to understand what other people are talking about. Let’s say I am curious. Once in a while I hear the expression “jumping the shark.” What the heck does that mean? With an Internet search engine ready to do my bidding, I quickly found the...
Doing the Right Thing

Doing the Right Thing

by jmalouff | Jan 21, 2021 | Emotions, Human Thinking and Behavior, Positive psychology

I recently read an article about a Spanish cross-country runner who did something unusual. An African runner who was well ahead of everyone else misinterpreted the location of the finish line and stopped too soon. The Spanish runner caught up to him and told him to...
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