Psychology Today

What We Need to Stop Misreading as Romantic Chemistry

January 18, 2025

Here is an especially interesting article by Mark Travers and published in Psychology Today. * * * Is she the one? Or is your brain, for the moment, incapable of seeing clearly? Romantic chemistry is highly difficult to predict, let…

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Chip Heath’s six basic traits of sticky ideas

January 8, 2022

Chip Heath’s research suggests that sticky ideas share six basic traits. • Simplicity. Messages are most memorable if they are short and deep. Glib sound bites are short, but they don’t last. Proverbs such as the golden rule are short…

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Common Cognitive Distortions: A list of ubiquitous cognitive distortions

August 28, 2021

Becoming mindful of the common cognitive distortions will help you understand yourself and other people better, and improve your decision making. Here is an excerpt from an article by Alice Boyes for Psychology Today. To read the complete article, check out others, and…

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What’s often missing from conversations about diversity and inclusion

April 28, 2020

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Sara Canaday for Psychology Today. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * I don’t typically write or comment on issues…

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Thinking Outside the Box: A Misguided Idea

May 1, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article by Drew Boyd for Psychology Today magazine. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Although studying creativity is considered a legitimate scientific…

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50 Common Cognitive Distortions: A giant list of ubiquitous cognitive distortions

October 20, 2016

Becoming mindful of the common cognitive distortions will help you understand yourself and other people better, and improve your decision making. Here is an excerpt from an article by Alice Boyes for Psychology Today. To read the complete article, check…

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10 Creative Block Breakers That Actually Work

October 12, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Susan K. Perry for Psychology Today in which she insists, “You CAN overcome the frustration of feeling blocked.” To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please…

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Dan Pontefract on “The Purpose Effect”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

August 28, 2016

Dan Pontefract is Chief Envisioner at TELUS, a Canadian telecommunications company, where he heads the Transformation Office, a future-of-work consulting group that helps organizations enhance their corporate cultures and collaboration practices. Previously as Head of Learning & Collaboration at TELUS,…

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Dan Pontefract on “The Purpose Effect”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

August 17, 2016

Dan Pontefract is Chief Envisioner at TELUS, a Canadian telecommunications company, where he heads the Transformation Office, a future-of-work consulting group that helps organizations enhance their corporate cultures and collaboration practices. Previously as Head of Learning & Collaboration at TELUS,…

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Eyal Winter on “Feeling Smart”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 4, 2016

Eyal Winter is professor of economics and the former director of the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one of the world’s leading institutions in the academic study of decision making. He served as…

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