As my career winds down, and my daughters’ university teaching careers get started, I’ve asked myself how university education might look when they reach my age. I’m pretty sure it will look much different. I doubt the current “bricks and mortar” model will survive, except for the very wealthy students. Read more…
Bullies are in the news. Young people with whole lives ahead of them are committing suicide under the relentless pressure and cruelty of their peers. What do we do? There is no question that bullying behavior is reprehensible, but the interesting thing is that bullying is not new. Ask people Read more…
I had the pleasure earlier this summer of speaking with Anna Asker, who writes for the Swedish newspaper SvD, about our research on Facebook and Loneliness. In a nutshell, our data showed that at least with university students and the “nonymous” environment of Facebook, connectivity offline predicted connectivity online. The Read more…
My dissertation advisor was fond of repeating a quote attributed to Albert Einstein–“If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” One might assume that physics is harder to explain than psychology, but that is not always the case. In spite of over 30 years in Read more…
My friends at mindfreedom.org passed along an important news release to me about tonight’s Nightline show. Given my late brother’s connection with Nightline (Leroy served as Executive Producer for many years), I am more than happy to do so. The issue under discussion is the use of restraint and electric shock Read more…