I haven’t posted recently because I haven’t had much to say, or maybe I just haven’t felt like saying anything. I was doing well. Feeling strong, having a pretty good time, distracting myself, ...

Behavioral inhibition (BI) refers to a well-studied temperament style identified reliably in infancy and early childhood. Young children with BI display heightened sensitivity to novel auditory and ...

I’ve become keenly aware of the dual process model of grief lately. This model involves oscillation between loss-oriented and restoration-oriented responses to grief. Sometimes a griever feels the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Most of you heave heard of Kahneman’s ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American "I back away from conscious thought and turn ...

The idea that consciousness involves different streams of thought has a long history. Paul Bakan has shown that as early as the medieval writings in the Zohar, one of the books of the Jewish mystical ...