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Do Self-Help Books Actually Help?

Do Self-Help Books Actually Help?

by jmalouff | Dec 1, 2018 | Mental health problems, Positive psychology, Well-Being

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 self-help book of any sort and asked them to what extent, if any, the books, helped them. The...
Ending Procrastination

Ending Procrastination

by jmalouff | Nov 30, 2018 | Human Thinking and Behavior, Mental health problems

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 have had a lot going on and this one just kind of slipped through the cracks. We’ve all been...
Stressors Can Be Good for You

Stressors Can Be Good for You

by jmalouff | Nov 29, 2018 | Mental health problems, Positive psychology, Well-Being

If you are like most people, you have taken many shots to boost your immunity to organisms such as those that cause measles and mumps. Every year I get the flu vaccine. Is it possible to get a  vaccination against psychological stressors? Yes. Read on....
The Easiest Psychological Disorder to Treat: Specific Phobia

The Easiest Psychological Disorder to Treat: Specific Phobia

by jmalouff | Nov 25, 2018 | Mental health problems

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 causes phobias? Let’s look at dog phobia as an example. Being bitten...
How Many Pairs of Shoes Do You Own?

How Many Pairs of Shoes Do You Own?

by jmalouff | Nov 23, 2018 | Human Thinking and Behavior, Mental health problems

Do you have emotional attachments to some of your possessions? One way to start answering that question is to count the number of shoes you own. I own six pairs of shoes. These include four pairs of shoes with which I have no emotional attachments: my bright blue...
Can You Tolerate Pain, Hunger, Frustration, Etc.?

Can You Tolerate Pain, Hunger, Frustration, Etc.?

by jmalouff | Nov 22, 2018 | Human Thinking and Behavior, Mental health problems, Positive psychology

Trying to help people increase their frustration tolerance is popular now among psychologists. I could have used more frustration tolerance this past week when I dealt with various technical and other problems as I tried to assign final grades for the term. Trying to...
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