by jmalouff | Jan 27, 2022 | Human Thinking and Behavior
Do you attend meetings that start by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land and by paying respects to Indigenous elders? I wonder what leads a group of non-Indigenous individuals to publicly show respect to the historic custodians of the...
by jmalouff | Jan 17, 2022 | Human Thinking and Behavior
How tough are you? I have been watching Alone Sweden on SBS in Australia. Eight individuals are placed alone at lake edge in a Norwegian forest as winter approaches. They have a backpack of supplies each. Their task: Stay and suffer longer than the...
by jmalouff | Dec 2, 2021 | Human Thinking and Behavior, Social psychology
What do you smell like right now? My daughter gave me a liquid soap that makes me smell like cinnamon. The gift led me to think of these Neil Young lyrics: I could be happy. The rest of my life. With a cinnamon girl. My expensive hair...
by jmalouff | Dec 2, 2021 | Human Thinking and Behavior
Have you written a song lately? No? Read on: You’ll have a song done in a matter of minutes. Let’s start with a tune, that of I Wonder by Rodriguez. Use your web browser to find a recorded rendition of it so you learn the tune....
by jmalouff | Dec 2, 2021 | Human Thinking and Behavior, Social psychology
Have you ever known a femme fatale? I watched a streaming video on someone who was widely considered one: Christine Keeler. She was the attractive teen at the centre of the Profumo Affair in the UK decades ago. Christine had an affair with the...
by jmalouff | Dec 2, 2021 | Human Thinking and Behavior, Positive psychology
Are you searching for meaning in life? If so, read Man’s Search for Meaning. Written by Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl after he survived imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps, the book points to the value of hope, love, responsibility to others,...