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Shop For A Psychotherapist To Avoid The Lemons
NPR: Turn on a TV talk show and you'll think that everyone in America is in need of mental health counseling. But there are hundreds of different kinds of therapy out there, and it's hard to know which ones work. Researchers have put a lot of effort into testing different forms of psychotherapy, and they have solid evidence of what works, particularly for common mental problems like depression and anxiety. But despite that, people can't presume they're going to get the right psychotherapy, according to Alan Kazdin, a clinical psychologist who directs the Yale Parent Center and Child Conduct Clinic. Read the whole story: NPR
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Kids and Money: 5 Ways to Instill Good Habits
CBS: Try it. You’ll like it. It’s a lie that parents tell their kids all the time, and it’s usually about food. But now there is evidence that even if kids don’t like, say, an icky vegetable, if you can get them to keep sampling the food eventually they will grow to enjoy it. And if it works with Brussels sprouts, why not with other distasteful things like budgets, saving and investing? First, a word on vegetables. British scientist Jane Wardle found that kids ages 4-6 were willing to eat veggies they did not like if they were paid (in stickers) to do so. No real surprise there. Who wouldn’t choke down their spinach for a Super Sticker Assortment?
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‘Situational’ Personality Traits: Why You Should Know Yours
The Huffington Post: I think of myself as a fairly easy-going guy -- tolerant, not easily riled up. That is, unless a rude driver cuts me off in traffic. Rudeness triggers the worst in me, and I doubt anyone would describe me as congenial under those circumstances. I can also get moody when I'm tired, and I'm much more affable once I've had my morning coffee. I'm probably more cheerful on Sundays than on Tuesdays. Still, on balance I think most my friends would describe me as easy-going. What I'm describing here -- this seeming contradiction -- is the difference between my global personality and my more nuanced, situational "if-then" profile. Read the whole story: The Huffington Post
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Psychology of Fear: Why Earthquake Prophecy Has Romans Fleeing
Live Science: Despite seismologists' assurances that there is absolutely no reason to fear a massive earthquake in Rome today (May 11), residents have fled their city by the thousands. They are basing their decision on rumors of a prophecy made almost a century ago by a long-dead pseudoscientist named Raffaele Bendandi. Back in 1915, Bendandi may or may not have predicted that a Rome earthquake would take place on May 11, 2011. Seismologists say earthquake prediction decades ahead of time is impossible. Secondly, there's no major fault line underneath Rome, so massive earthquakes don't happen there.
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Guys Have to Earn Their Status
ABC News: Me Tarzan. You Jane. Well, not necessarily, although the ape man was doing what comes naturally when he asserted his manhood on the lady from England. There are biological, as well as social, reasons why a man has to prove his manliness, and a woman does not. And a new effort to explain that difference between the genders concludes that the rights of passage for males at least partly explains why men are more aggressive than women. Manhood, according to psychologists Jennifer K. Bosson and Joseph A.
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Brooks-Gunn, Ginsburg Elected To National Academy of Education
Teacher's College - Columbia University: Faculty members Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Herbert P. Ginsburg have been elected to the National Academy of Education (NAEd). They are among 11 education leaders who were elected to the Academy for their “pioneering efforts in education research and policy development,” the Academy announced. “The newly elected members are preeminent leaders in their respective areas of educational research, and they have had extraordinary impact on education in the U.S.,” said TC President Susan H. Fuhrman, who is also President of NAEd.
