Do Self-Help Books Actually Help?
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
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
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
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?
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...
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