by jmalouff | Jun 4, 2020 | Human Thinking and Behavior, Mental health problems
When I started my training as a psychologist, I moved in with two students I did not know. One of them told me about an incident the prior year with the other one, “Doug.” Doug went far from home to attend university. Doug, feeling the freedom of being away from...
by jmalouff | Jun 4, 2020 | Human Thinking and Behavior, Social psychology
Almost everyone has heard of the Bible injunction to “judge not that ye may not be judged.” Yet we often judge people. Some of us work as judges. Others of us serve as jurors in trials. I often ask a friend what sentence she would give a person who is in...
by jmalouff | Jun 4, 2020 | Coping, Emotions, Human Thinking and Behavior, Social psychology
I read that actor Rose McGowan said she was deeply offended by the dress another actor, Natalie Portman, wore to the Academy Awards ceremony. I will spare you the details of what offended McGowan. I am more interested in the frequency with which people nowadays are...
by jmalouff | Jun 4, 2020 | Human Thinking and Behavior, Social psychology
I imagine that you have seen spectacles, at least on television. The opening ceremony for the Olympic Games. A major rock concert. Recently I participated in a spectacle for the first time. It happened one morning in my home town, Armidale. I went to a...
by jmalouff | Jun 4, 2020 | Human Thinking and Behavior, Social psychology, Well-Being
You are a trusting soul. Bless your heart for that. You might not think you are big in the trust department, but consider how much trust you show when you drive down a two-way street. You trust that the driver of the oncoming car will stay in the proper lane. That...
by jmalouff | Jun 4, 2020 | Human Thinking and Behavior, Social Support
In the 1960 movie “The Time Machine,” a scientist develops a way to travel in time. He goes way into the future and finds lovely, simple people who know nothing of technology. They do not read; they do not raise crops. Instead, they are fed by another group of humans...