As you may have noticed, I am experimenting with the use of Loneliness with my introductory psychology students. We’re doing a lot of out of class projects, but I also wanted to incorporate some in-class activities. Yesterday, we tried to apply one of the principles of improving social connection suggested Read more…
Continuing our tribute to the psychology of political attitudes, which we started with a discussion of the “happiness gap” between conservatives and liberals, is today’s entry–an article appearing in the prestigious journal Science that claims that conservatives are “three times more fearful” than liberals [1]. Now I know as psychologists Read more…
Given my recent Google issues, I was checking my referral stats on sitemeter, and noticed that a lot of my traffic was being generated by Online University Reviews. It’s interesting to see how big the online education community is becoming. So I just wanted to thank Online University Reviews again Read more…
I’m just taking a quick break from writing my evil testbank for Discovering Biological Psychology 2e (and yes, I’m picky enough to do that myself) to wish APS a happy 20th birthday! For more history of the APS, click here. According to an email from Alan Kraut: “It was 20 Read more…
Okay, I confess to being about double the age (at least) of the average Facebook client, but I am finding this social networking thing a bunch of fun. We joined in response to our daughters’ suggestions. Kristin says it’s easier to get her dad’s photos on her phone than when Read more…