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Lauren F. Friedman

About

Lauren F. Friedman has written for Scientific American Mind, ScientificAmerican.com, GOOD, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and other publications. She has also contributed writing and editing to three very different books: Creative Time: 33 Years of Public Art in New York, Not For Tourists: Queens, and Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation. Lauren previously edited Psychology Today's Insights and Health sections and worked as a linguistics researcher and arts administrator before becoming a journalist.

Recent Posts
Bookshelf: Sleep on It

The science of slumber, the art of decision-making, and the power of home

The science of slumber, the art of decision-making, and the power of home

News: Generation Trap

When you were born may affect your lifelong well-being.

When you were born may affect your lifelong well-being.

Insights: News

Pills for PTSD, pain and why the stock market makes us fat.

Pills for PTSD, pain and why the stock market makes us fat.

Mind Your Body: The Perks of Feeling So-So

Embracing emotional ambiguity does more for you than thinking positively all the time.

Embracing emotional ambiguity does more for you than thinking positively all the time.

Stat: Phi Beta Frappuccino

A crisis of underemployment means finding a challenging job is harder than ever.

A crisis of underemployment means finding a challenging job is harder than ever.