Psychologist Daniel Crosby wrote an article titled What the “Mona Lisa” Can Teach You About Investing Risk (8 October 2026).
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Psychologist Daniel Crosby wrote an article titled Why Imagining the Worst Can Be for the Best (5 October 2026).
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Mark Crowley wrote an article for Psychology Today titled Are You Doing the Work You Were Meant to Do? (11 September 2026).
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Pediatric neuropsychologist Prof. Sam Goldstein wrote an article for Psychology Today titled An Epidemic of Need: The Surge in Childhood Psychiatric Diagnoses (22 April 2025).
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Gregg Vanourek wrote an article titled The Mental Prisons We Build for Ourselves (21 July 2021).
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Retired psychiatrist Hugh Winig wrote an article titled Il Dolce Far Niente (The Sweetness of Doing Nothing) for OLLI at UC Berkeley (16 January 2024).
Continue reading “Il Dolce Far Niente (The Sweetness of Doing Nothing)”People rate selves better than average, even faced with objective data to the contrary.
Dee Gill wrote an article for UCLA Anderson Review titled Unflattering Facts Don’t Dent Positive Self-Assessments (17 September 2025).
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Jonathan Dunnett wrote an article titled The Secret, Destructive Power of Unbridled Optimism.
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Alan Levinovitz wrote an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education titled Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong? (September 25, 2024).
Continue reading “Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong?”The doorway effect
Charles B. Brenner and Jeffrey M. Zacks wrote an article for Scientific American titled Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget (December 13, 2011).
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