Even when people agree that someone has been a victim of cyberbullying, participants view the victim more negatively when she posted a highly personal disclosure. Credit: iStock People on social media are often unsupportive of cyberbullying victims who have shared … Continue reading
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About a year ago, I wrote this column for my college newspaper’s special issue on sex, love and intimacy. It’s about the difficulties with having sex after experiencing sexual trauma. It’s about 99 percent truthful.Nowhere in that column do I … Continue reading
A woman buys a Powerball lottery ticket at a newsstand in New York City on January 12, 2016. (Photo: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images) By Melissa Dahl Three lucky souls won the $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot last night, and chances are, you … Continue reading
Institute for Contemporary Affairs Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation No. 606January-February 2016 The outbreak of violence by mostly young individual Palestinian Arabs has been attributed to a variety of explanations that range from nationalistic motives to more religious … Continue reading
Quit the diet! Diets do not work. Diets are temporary fixes to lifetime habits. Create a lifestyle, a healthy lifestyle. As humans, we should focus more on eating to live, not living to eat. I had a request to start … Continue reading
In the new book Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, Richard Thaler, coauthor of Nudge and a behavioral science and economics professor at the University of Chicago, recounts his struggle to change the way traditional economists look at the impact … Continue reading
Harvey Langholtz, a professor of psychology at William Mary who teaches a class on decision theory, recently talked with WM News about what people should consider when deciding whether or not to play the Powerball lottery. – Ed. How does … Continue reading
News Will having all that money make you happier? Posted:Jan 12 2016 06:08PM EST Updated:Jan 13 2016 01:25PM EST The Psychology of Powerball n News The Psychology of Powerball The chances of winning the $1.5 billion dollar jackpot are slim … Continue reading
Someone could win the $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot tonight, though as killjoys across the internet have already noted, that someone will likely not be you. But let’s say some other massive upswing in good fortune comes your way this year. … Continue reading