“What brings you here today?” In many years of clinical practice, I often initiated my first conversation with a patient with this question. No, I wasn't interested in what mode of transit the patient took to reach my office, but I was interested in the journey: the patient's journey to seek help for hearing problems. Every hearing health professional is familiar with the statistics that show a delay of seven to 10 years or more between the time an older person first suspects a hearing loss and professional help is sought. After being assessed, many patients delay further action even when >>>

Life is too short for wasting time probing every instance of professional organizations promoting bad science when they have an established record of doing just that. There were lots of indicators that’s what we were dealing with in the Association for Psychological Science (APS) recent campaign for the now discredited and retracted ‘sadness prevents us from seeing blue’ article. A quick assessment of the press release should have led us to dismiss the claims being presented and convinced us to move on. Readers can skip my introductory material by jumping down this blog >>>

Jackson-based clinical psychologist Dr. Jim Herzog's work is about understanding people's behavior so he can help make their lives better. "I like understanding the reasons people behave as they do and finding ways to help people with significant psychological difficulties so they can make their lives better," he says. "The educational component, teaching people about themselves, is one of the most significant parts of my job and the part that best helps me accomplish my goals. It's very important to me to see people who come to me become able to take care of themselves better psychologically." Herzog, >>>

Tal Ben-Shahar is a best-selling author, academic and entrepreneur in the field of positive psychology. In 2006, his course on positive psychology became the most popular class at Harvard University. Since then he has cofounded Potentialife, a year-long leadership development programme that incorporates the latest in positive psychology, technology and behavioural science to support organisations in developing their people into flourishing leaders This generation is the richest in history, with global wealth at a record-breaking all-time high of $263 >>>

On Monday, an Ohio grand jury chose not to indict the police officer who shot and killed Tamir Rice, a black 12-year-old from Cleveland, after the cops mistook his toy gun for an actual weapon. Officers also mistook a child for a grown man. “It is likely that Tamir, whose size made him look much older…either intended to hand it over to the officers or show them it wasn’t a real gun,” said prosecutor Tim McGinty in a prepared statement Monday. After the shooting, officers relayed to their dispatcher that a person in his 20s had been shot, CNN reports. At the hearing, a prosecutor claimed >>>

Be honest with me. Have you ever had the thought that you wanted to start your own business but didn't know how? Do you have it frequently? I'm here to relieve you of the mental anguish.Whatever you're thinking of building, just do it already. What's the worst that can happen? You start off at square one. At least now you know. No regrets. What's the best that can happen? Ask Nathan Chan.Nathan's an Australian entrepreneur who's quickly hacked his way into interviewing some of the most influential entrepreneurs on the planet, all while building >>>

REUTERS/Henny Ray AbramsWhy do our New Year's resolutions never stick? We make sweeping declarations like "This year I'm going to quit smoking" or "This year, I'm going to lose X pounds," but are miserable when we fail a few weeks into January. The bottom line is that we're thinking about New Year's resolutions the wrong way, Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist at Harvard and author of the upcoming book "Presence," told Tech Insider. Most resolutions are overtly negative. They seek to change things that we don't like about ourselves. We make them too ambitious. And we design them >>>

REUTERS/Henny Ray AbramsWhy do our New Year's resolutions never stick? We make sweeping declarations like "This year I'm going to quit smoking" or "This year, I'm going to lose X pounds," but are miserable when we fail a few weeks into January. The bottom line is that we're thinking about New Year's resolutions the wrong way, Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist at Harvard and author of the upcoming book "Presence," told Tech Insider. Most resolutions are overtly negative. They seek to change things that we don't like about ourselves. We make them too ambitious. And we design them >>>

DePauw University, known by at least a few as the birthplace of the rock band, Chicago Transit Authority, has come up with a few suggestions that might help you stay true to your New Year resolutions. As most of us would admit, we’ll take any help we can get. Too many times, the best of intentions simply isn’t good enough. >>>

The possibility of being addicted to switching up your hair color isn’t totally out of left field. In fact, it’s pretty easy: You could become addicted to just about anything, including your staple Starbucks order. “Everyday activities like eating, drinking, working, sports, and shopping can become habit-forming. So it is with hair dyeing,” says Vivian Diller, Ph.D., a NYC-based psychologist. It could also be a signal that you’re straight-up bored. “Sometimes, women just want to change their hair color for the sake of it,” says celeb hair colorist, Rita Hazan, owner of the namesake >>>