I love good science. There’s a kind of elegant, brilliant sanity to a well-crafted and carried-out study. They often make me smile inside when I hear about them.
I was up on Whidbey Island channel-surfing one rainy Sunday afternoon when I happened upon Bill Gates Senior speaking on the University of Washington’s public access [...]
Archive for February, 2008
This Just In: Science Proves … Nothing!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Neurobiology of Yes and No
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I teach a fair amount of social neuroscience to parents and parents-to-be. Since I have a very low threshold for repetition and routine, I tend to change things up a lot from class to class. What I like most is to come up with exercises that the whole class can do that best [...]
On Skillfully Speaking Truth to Power
Posted in Uncategorized on February 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I was driving home from the airport last Monday night and happened to catch an elder statesman of social psychology on It’s Your World. If you’ve heard it a few times, it’s easy to recognize Phil Zimbardo’s New York accent, especially as he’s offering up some of the intimate details of his famous [...]
The Anatomy of an Upset
Posted in Uncategorized on February 3, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Several years ago, I made an appointment with a therapist to try and resolve some early trauma that was causing me trouble. After I explained what had happened, the therapist dismissed the incident, told me I was wrong about the experience being traumatic, pulled out the DSM-IV, and proceeded to methodically read to me [...]
