Entitlement—a damning recipe for happiness
Entitlement—a personality trait driven by exaggerated feelings of deservingness and superiority—may lead to chronic disappointment, unmet expectations and...
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Practicing how to play during school can improve student imaginations and creative problem-solving, study shows
Elementary students who practiced playing at school significantly improved their organization of stories, imagination and frequency in showing...
Millennials admit to being narcissists—but don’t you dare call them that
So-called millennials consider their generation the most narcissistic ever. Older generations agree—but think the narcissism goes even beyond...
Psychology’s Lisa Damour explains teenage girl behavior in new book
On Feb. 9, Lisa Damour, clinical instructor of psychology, released her book, Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls through the...
Psychology’s Jane Timmons-Mitchell blogs about accuracy of film “Inside Out”
Does Inside Outaccurately capture the mind of an 11-year-old girl? A child psychologist weighs in The Conversation:Jane Timmons-Mitchell, associate...
Psychology instructor Lisa Damour blogs about Pixar’s approach to children feelings’s in film, ‘Inside Out’
‘Inside Out:’ Pixar’s convincing argument against childhood happiness The New York Times: In a blog post, Lisa Damour,...
5 questions with…documentary star, dual-degree student Imani Scruggs
Senior Imani Scruggs is a product of alchemy. No, not the medieval chemical science. Rather Alchemy Inc., a...
Callahan Distinguished Lecture presents Sherry Turkle on how technology is shaping our relationships
With personal communication dominated by texts, tweets and online posts, some wonder if social technology has hollowed out...
People who believe they were ”born that way” more inclined to blame God for bad behavior, CWRU researchers find
People are more likely to blame God for their bad moral behavior when they believe they were born...
Children should confront stage fright in order to learn and grow, says Psychology’s Amy Przeworski
Should children be forced to perform? The New York Times: When an author reflected on her son’s stage...