Behavior Modification

Details: Written by: Mark Griffiths

The Psychology Of New Year’s Resolutions

Research has shown that about half of all adults make New Year’s resolutions. However, fewer than 10% manage to keep them for more than a few months.

Details: Written by: Bruce D. Schneider, Ph.D.

How Guilt Is Not A Wasted Emotion, But A Wonderful Teacher

I remember once believing that guilt was a wasted emotion. Like all emotions, there is a place for guilt. A centered spiritual being, one who has moved past limiting beliefs, will feel guilty doing something that goes against who she is or wants to be.

Details: Written by: Michael Rozansky

Don’t Spread This Holiday Suicide Myth

The holiday season usually has the lowest monthly suicide rates, but a new analysis shows that in the 2019-2020 holiday season, about half of the newspaper stories that connected the holidays and suicide contained misinformation falsely perpetuating the myth.

Details: Written by: Geshe Sonam Rinchen

Attitudes Transformed

Without reversing our present attitudes towards ourselves and others, we cannot attain enlightenment. We might think, "Well, so what?" But at the same time we don't want to remain in our present condition, experiencing unhappiness and suffering. By considering all these points carefully, we will realize that making this switch in our attitudes is possible.

Details: Written by: Laurel Thomas

How Online Stores Trick You Into Impulse Buying

A new study analyzes the tricks of the trade that may contribute to impulse buying.

Details: Written by: Max Witynski

Psychologists have often studied the “bright side” of morality—its role in promoting cooperation, for example. But the new research highlights morality’s “dark side.”

Details: Written by: Bill Hathaway

Kids Will Sacrifice To Teach Wrongdoers A Lesson

Many children are willing to make personal sacrifices to punish wrongdoers—and even more so if they believe punishment will teach the transgressor a lesson, according to a new study.

Details: Written by: Sophia La Banca

Currently, we are facing one of the worst pandemics in human history. Since our means to fight the virus are still limited, social distancing has been the best way to contain the crisis.

Details: Written by: Victoria Knight,

While airlines promote holiday deals and encourage travel, a nationwide Covid-19 surge makes getting on a plane risky.

Details: Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com

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My wife Marie and I are a mixed couple. She's Canadian and I am an American. For the past 15 years we have spent our winters in Florida and our summers in Nova Scotia.

Details: Written by: Marie T. Russell

Stop Repressing Your Emotions: Get Those Emotions in Motion

Many of us have been holding back and storing unfelt emotions. What's the purpose? Unfortunately, the reason behind suppressed emotions is self-defeating. Holding back from "feeling your feelings" is usually how we try to protect ourselves from being hurt. However...

Details: Written by: Laurel Thomas

A new study explores why people make a “non-click” choice, a decision to not respond to some social media posts, even when they spend time as “lurkers” of the content.

Details: Written by: Edward M. Adams, Psy.D.

Who is that Unmasked Man? It's Time to Liberate Masculinity

As a psychologist whose specialty is treating men, I believe that behind many of the threats we face are the invisible, dangerous, dysfunctional and persistent beliefs that manhood is about power and control. These beliefs about what it means to be a man are what I refer to as “confined masculinity.”

Details: Written by: Simon McCarthy-Jones,

Why are some humans cruel to people who don’t even pose a threat to them – sometimes even their own children? Where does this behaviour come from and what purpose does it serve?

Details: Written by: Richard OConnor

Why Guilt Can Be Good For You

We spend so much time helping people who punish themselves and constrain their lives with an overdeveloped sense of guilt that it's easy to forget the other side of the coin.

Details: Written by: Jude Bijou

Are You Engaged In A "Not Enough" Struggle? Not Having, Not Doing, Not Being Enough?

Do you feel like you're never enough? That there's never enough time? Money? Friends? Great opportunities? Recognition? Do you believe if you had or did something else...

Details: Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com

When Your Back Is Against The Wall

I love the internet. Now I know a lot of people have a lot of bad things to say about it, but I love it. Just like I love the people in my life -- they are not perfect, but I love them anyway.

Details: Written by: Judith Corvin-Blackburn

How We've Created Duality and Separation... And What To Do About It

Instead of embracing change and uniqueness, we are raised to fear both. Our conditioned ego asks that we expend huge amounts of energy trying to create a false sense of security and stability. It chides us mercilessly if we attempt to break out of the dysfunctional norms that our culture has placed on us.

Details: Written by: Marie T. Russell

Sometimes it seems that commitment is a four-letter word. It is a word that oftentimes brings up fear as well as insecurity and doubt. What is the underlying fear to committing ourselves to an action, project, or relationship? Is it...