Richard Florida is a researcher and author whose column, Where Do All the Neurotics Live?, appears in today’s Boston Globe. The article offers some interesting insights into the potential “psychogeography” of the United States.

Psychologists have shown that human personalities can be classified along five key dimensions: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extroversion, neuroticism, and openness to […]

Everyone’s heard of the need for self-esteem. If you don’t feel good about yourself, how can you ever accomplish anything in your life?
But what you may not know is the need for something else, which may be even more important — self-efficacy. That is, the belief that you have what you need in order […]

Pages: 1 2 Next »     Single Page We all have difficult people we need to deal with in our lives on a daily basis. While such characteristics may be exaggerations, you may find traits of them in a few of the people in your workplace, amongst your friends, or even a loved […]

Some are suggesting that this study is some sort of groundbreaking work in understanding borderline personality disorder. While an interesting brain study, I’d suggest it tells us a lot less than the authors purport.
First, this is a classic laboratory study. And while laboratory studies of this nature are the foundation for later clinically-relevant studies, they […]

They say no two snowflakes are alike.
I’d argue that there are no two people alike either. That while there may be many similarities between two people, no two people on this earth have the exact same similar life experiences, personalities, upbringing, brains, reasoning, thoughts or emotions.
Not exactly an earth shattering revelation, now is it?
Except that, […]

Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a peaceful university located in Dekalb, Illinois, about 65 miles west of Chicago. It has a beautiful campus and the town and university live in a beneficial co-existence.
It is the last place you’d ever expect the kind of tragedy that unfolded on Thursday to happen.
Stephen Phillip Kazmierczak, the gunman who […]

Earlier this month, Time magazine published a first-person account of a doctor having to deal with a challenging patient who came to him after having conducted some research via Google. The doctor’s description of his disdain for these kinds of patients, and this particular patient and her child, wasn’t very politically correct, which caught […]

Personality disorders are a particularly category of mental problems that are characterized by a pervasive and disruptive style of being in the world. A recent report from ABC news has found that as many as 22,000 troops have been discharged from the military since 2001 for personality disorders, the most notable probable being Steven Green. […]

Some people love the summertime, others love the cold of the winter. Me? More than anything, I love the changing of the seasons. It really doesn’t matter from what season to another, I love the fact that there’s a certainty, a progress to the year that you can count on almost like nothing else in […]

How do you correct misconceptions within the general public?
The answer is, not easily.
Norbert Schwarz has been studying this issue for years and earlier this year released a study showing how difficult it was to correct people’s common misconceptions, even when you presented them with the factually correct information. The misconceptions or myths not only continued, […]

Laura Sessions Stepp has a nice article in today’s Washington Post about when men and women decide to stop talking and start doing something about the issues in their lives. Because although there’s a time to listen, there’s also a time to eventually take action.
Women appear to be better at spreading an emotional contagion […]

Why do women consistently make less salary than men, even when doing the exact same work? Previous research has shown that it may be partially due to the fact that men tend to be more aggressive and competitive than women when it comes to their salary and position within a company. So you’d think, well, […]