You demand absolute certainty. And, if you don't know absolutely FOR SURE, you will continue to worry. What can you do to help yourself?

You've got them (all of them) under your skin. Emotional pollution is transmitted covertly by body language, facial expressions, and tone of voice and more overtly by language and behavior. The negative effects of the more subtle forms of emotional pollution are nearly as great as the more dramatic forms.

I am currently teaching a seminar on “positive psychology,” which deals mostly with research on happiness. To date, I have assigned several papers about happiness written by economists, and most of the class, it seems, has found these papers a bit hard to read. Clearly, psychologists and economists approach the same problems quite differently, and here I’d like to offer one example.

into the stream of consciousness, that is...

Poets Love Being in Love 

For the past week, the online magazine Slate has been featuring an exchange between whistle-blowing journalists and the producer of “The Infinite Mind” over whether the public radio show shills for Big Pharma. Since I am the show’s immediate past host, a number of people have written to ask about my stance in the dispute and my own relationship to drug companies.

Anthropologists Rewrite the History of Early Feminism With a Stick

Unfortunately, this is a very large group - but this post provides ironclad ways to ferret them out.

"Split a piece of wood, you will find me. Turn over a rock, and I will be there."

These days, statements like that would probably get you locked up in a psych ward. But in truth, this experience is at the core of enlightenment, rapture, satori, samadhi and epiphany.

Very hot and very controversial topic in the autism literature is whether mercury or vaccines or mercury in vaccines cause autism. In my opinion, No. Now a different question is whether mercury or vaccines are harmful to certain children either in utero or later in development. To this, my answer is maybe. Let's first look at the statements commonly used to support the belief that vaccines cause autism.

What are the effects on children of being imprisoned in a basement apartment for years?

Though it supports the multi-billion dollar divorce industry, conventional divorce serves families poorly and makes it more difficult for family members to adjust and get on with their lives.

"My soul broods. Mechanically I walk over to a tree, pull my cap low over my eyes..." Knut Hamsun

Britney Spears reprised her guest role as "Abby," a bubbly secretary, on May 12th's How I Met Your Mother episode. During her first appearance on March 26, Spears was credited with increasing Mother's viewership by more than one million viewers. Britney also garnered positive reviews by TV critics as Abby.

Although women leaders struggle with being effective and yet show compassion, both men and women leaders alike may exert positive or negative attributes.

 Flirting is conducted within a tacit borderline; it is a kind of game in which participants move closer to the borderline-and sometimes even step across it-and then move back to a comfortable distance from it. Cyberflirting is a type of verbal dance in which the boundaries of sexuality are not clearly drawn. Flirting is like an inactive volcano that can become active any moment.

The body is strong, the mind clear and, if not one-pointed, moving toward a sense of focus. We enter now the realm of the soul. Wait! What happened to mind-body-spirit? How'd soul get in there?

Although this is a blog about children and adolescents, I felt it appropriate to start with a post on moms in honor of Mother's Day. There's been a lot of research and discussion surrounding mothers and their impact on their children. The practice of blaming moms for their children's problems has a long history (and I'm not just talking about those comments by your mother-in-law). For everything from autism to eating disorders, mothers and their behavior are linked up with childhood problems in research and popular media. More recently, issues with children are blamed on working mothers not being home or the fact that children have to attend daycare. Is this fair?

Law, as a human institution, is a system for governing human behavior...The brain, as an organ, is the physiological system that governs individual behavior...Thus, at their very core, law and neuroscience are intimately interwoven.

What makes for resilience?

Say you take two seemingly similar mice and humiliate them. One appears anxious. The other continues to behave normally. What distinguishes the two?