Videojug is an educational social video site known for its huge array of step-by-step instructional videos on everything from how to tie a tie or how to get rid of spam email, to how to play table tennis/ping pong.
Being a Good Friend is a collection of 17 short videos on specific social situations: How to […]

Do you feel healthy, both physically and mentally? If so, according to a new study in the August American Journal of Preventive Medicine, you’re also likely to be involved in your community and feel a sense of belonging to it — characteristics referred to as “social capital,” which include factors like community participation, volunteer work […]

This week’s New York Times Magazine has an interesting article about the benefits and problems associated with “equally shared parenting,” also known as “shared care”. The basic idea, according to the couples profiled in the article, is that “gender should not determine the division of labor at home.” Marc and Amy Vachon, for example, decided
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Debates about same-sex relationships and marriage have become an unavoidable hot-button issue in the political arena these past few years. Moral deliberation aside, however, new research suggests that gay couples “have a great deal to teach everyone else about marriage and relationships”, as author Tara Parker-Hope says in this interesting New York Times piece yesterday. […]

First it was cybertherapy. Now texting is making inroads into the national psyche, helping people work out tough emotional issues that under different circumstances, they might otherwise leave alone.
A story at MSNBC describes how some people turn to texting to deal with a recent emotional trauma, with the inevitable quote from a psychologist suggesting that […]

Megan Meier, the 13-year-old who took her own life after being bullied online, is hopefully at peace. But her mom fights on in her name, having recently created a foundation to help reduce and prevent online bullying (”cyberbulling”). The Associated Press has the story:

But in recent months, the Missouri woman has focused on ways to […]

Pages: 1 2 Next »     Single Page Every treatment has its downsides. Medications have side effects and it can often feel like a revolving door trying to find one (or a combination of a few) that work for any particular person. And while medications’ side effects are well-publicized, few articles are written […]

One of the common myths about teens and sex (it appears to be “Teen Week” here at World of Psychology!) is that teens nowadays are trying to hold on to their virginity by engaging only in oral sex as opposed to full intercourse. New research largely debunks this myth.
The study, published in the July issue […]

Lori Drew, the alleged perpetrator behind a slate of nasty Myspace messages Megan Meier received from “Josh” that appear to have led to her suicide hours later, has been indicted by federal prosecutors in Missouri. We previously reported on the Megan Meier murder and noted last December how cowardly local prosecutors declined to prosecute Drew.
Drew […]

If it’s May, it must be Mental Health Month, that special, warm, cozy time of the year that we all gather around our medication bottles and sing a little mental health happiness song.
Yes, I’m starting a new tradition. Please join in if you’d like.
But for most Americans, Mental Health Month is meant to highlight mental […]

“I think I’m in love with my therapist. What’s wrong with me? What should I do?”
It is not unusual to feel strong feelings of “love” or affinity toward your therapist. But those feelings probably aren’t what you think.
Psychodynamic theory suggests the reason that many people fall in love with their therapist is because they are […]

You have to give Lillie Yifu of Second Sex some credit for trying. Apparently figuring out the human behavior of men is as easy as watching the men who come through your virtual door and surmise a bunch of generalizations that you then turn into a blog entry, A Page From Men: The Missing Owner’s […]