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Complaining About Complaining
Carl Jung said, “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” I picked up The Squeaky Wheel: Complaining the Right Way To Get Results, Improve Your...
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Laptop-Shooting Dad: How Is His Behavior Different From His Daughter’s?
By now you’ve probably seen the viral video by folk hero du jour, the father who put several bullets into his teenaged daughter’s laptop because she put up a whiny, disrespectful post on Facebook. (If...
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Laptop Dads, Tiger Mothers, And Other Dubious Parenting Styles
I popped off at Laptop Dad, like he popped off at his daughter, like his daughter popped off at him. Interesting, huh? See how that works? Chain of fools. I regret the tone but stand behind the...
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Are Our Emotions Cranked To 11?
Have you been watching “Downton Abbey” like the rest of us? Think about the Dowager Countess of Grantham, marvelous Maggie Smith. When she doesn’t like something, she gets a face like a cat that’s...
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Imagery and the Mind and Mindfulness
I’ve only just started reading the new book by fellow PyschCentral blogger Elisha Goldstein, and I’ve already found something useful. Goldstein is a psychologist in private practice, and his excellent...
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Let’s Talk About Keeping Passion Alive
Keeping keep passion alive over the long haul is the greatest challenge to monogamy. After you’ve rolled around together a few thousand times, sex can become rote, which is, to use the technical term,...
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If you’ve been reading Real World Research for a while, you may remember the “fat old bitch” incident. (If not, read about it here, and here.) The current fracas over Rush Limbaugh’s unbelievably...
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Looking at the Negative (Spaces) In Our World
Elisha Goldstein’s book, The Now Effect, has sent my brain spinning in yet another direction. The anecdote: A professor stood before a philosophy class holding an empty jar. As the students took their...
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Brush Up On Your People Skills, Read a Novel
“I never read fiction,” is a point of pride for many people, along the lines of “I never watch TV.” The implication is that nonfiction is a higher calling, that fiction is a frivolous pastime while...
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Everybody Take Ten, And I’ll Be Back Soon
Dear Readers, Thank you all for supporting Real World Research. Writing it has been fun and educational, but after more than a year at it, I’m finding its demands—in terms of the amount of research it...
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