New column day
Here, on how Saskatchewan's election campaign pits a party pushing instant gratification against one basing its policies on an appeal to voters' altruism.
Psychology
The schizoid nature of the Western world: Overcoming the root paradox of Western civilization – and our own minds
The Western world is still trapped in a paradox and a self-contradiction of our own making: we are schizoid with regards to the body, the material world and to our…
Pirate Therapy
Laurence arrived a few minutes late for his regular Thursday morning session, but his therapist usually ran late, so he wasn’t worried. From behind the door of his therapist’s office,…
Word to the bland, blasé and banal – apathy is living death
A song came on the radio today that I have loved all my life – except this time, it was a cover, and it spoke something to me that I…
Buddhism for Skeptics of Religion
A non-Buddhist skeptical atheist with background in psychology, scientific research, healthcare and mindfulness meditation shows how many of the central tenets and practices of Buddhism can appeal to other skeptics.
Kicking Addictions: Commentary on What It Takes and What Helps
Work on getting past addictions by setting effective, personally-valued goals, exercising discipline but tolerating lapses, accessing support, finding substitutions, distractions and adaptive strategies, and cultivating mindfulness and insight into emotions…
Be a commenter
Susan Delacourt points out some fascinating research on voter turnout - with the key finding being that citizens are more likely to turn out when prompted to think in terms…
Austerity Leads to Suicide Rate Increase
Friday’s Vancouver Sun had a short item that you might have missed, “Suicides up, road deaths down due to recession.” It’s in the bottom corner of page B5: Suicides rates…
The Sociology Behind Unsportsmanlike And Aggressive Behavior Of Fans
Because every columnist, sports commentator and pundit decided to weigh-in on the Vancouver sports riot, I thought I'd look at it from a sociological and psychological point of view. Firstly,…
The Social Determinants of Health
(Note: This post contains a portion of the talk that I gave last month at the 16th International Conference of the Association of Psychology and Psychiatry for Adults and Children…
The greatest of dangers
The challenge is not to become a machine. The greatest danger is not from outside: the greatest danger is ourselves – that is, the greatest danger is losing touch with…
This must be a joke… please tell me this is a joke
Nature’s laws of shopping: Men hunt, women gather University of Michigan psychologist Daniel Kruger has found that how we shop has an awful lot to do with how we once…
This must be a joke… please tell me this is a joke
Nature’s laws of shopping: Men hunt, women gather University of Michigan psychologist Daniel Kruger has found that how we shop has an awful lot to do with how we once…
This must be a joke… please tell me this is a joke
Nature's laws of shopping: Men hunt, women gatherUniversity of Michigan psychologist Daniel Kruger has found that how we shop has an awful lot to do with how we once found…
This must be a joke… please tell me this is a joke
Nature's laws of shopping: Men hunt, women gatherUniversity of Michigan psychologist Daniel Kruger has found that how we shop has an awful lot to do with how we once found…