I’m definitely dating myself when I say that the average hardcover textbook I bought at UCLA cost around $10. New. Of course minimum wage was $1.65, and I was delighted to earn $2.74 as an admitting clerk in the UCLA Emergency Room (I learned a lot about psychology in Read more…
Office supply giant Pendaflex commissioned a study of people’s filing habits, and discovered that you could learn a lot about a person by visiting his or her office. Three main personality types emerged in the study: Pilers accounted for 48 percent of office workers. Pilers can be identified by Read more…
Would you trust this man? People offering psychological services have a baffling array of degrees. The Eating Disorder Referral Information Center offers a very long page of abbreviations to help clients decipher their therapists’ diplomas. I am not a clinical psychologist. I never could get past that “non-judgmental” thing, where you Read more…
Richard Lewis of Pomona College has written a thought-provoking article on the status and future of undergraduate neuroscience education for J.U.N.E. Richard asks whether neuroscience should be a department or a program. As Richard points out, most of us like to define neuroscience as interdisciplinary. The American Heritage Dictionary defines Read more…
Welcome to my new psychology blog! I’d like to thank my daughter, Karen, and my husband, Roger, for the inspiration to try this new way of communicating with my students, people who have bought my books, and interested others. Karen is a grad student in Public Relations at the Annenberg Read more…