Kith and Kin

Guilt

Working Parent Guilt

Gillian Ragsdale Ph.D. on February 22, 2020

Do confident parents feel less guilty, and can sacrificing work goals improve your kids’ behavior?

Appetite

The Hunger for Change

Gillian Ragsdale Ph.D. on October 17, 2014

Adolescence is not a pathological state between childhood and adulthood. We just cannot afford to get this so wrong.

Parenting

Stranger Danger: Real Risks vs. Ancient Terrors

Gillian Ragsdale Ph.D. on June 30, 2014

Strange things happen to your brain when you become a parent–and this is just one of them. Because at the gaming table of evolution, some risks are worth taking more than others.

Guilt

Parents: An Emotionally Vulnerable Market

Gillian Ragsdale Ph.D. on March 18, 2014

Parents can be emotionally vulnerable—so are advertisers cheating when they make parents feel guilty in order to sell a product?

Sex

The Maternal Myth

Gillian Ragsdale Ph.D. on December 18, 2013

Surely all women must have a maternal instinct or the human race would die out. Some women don’t seem very interested in having babies but that can’t be normal—can it?

Career

Paying the Cow in Cash

Gillian Ragsdale Ph.D. on November 15, 2013

Breast may be best—but if 100% of mothers breastfed their babies it would be the first time in human history.

Play

Born to Share?

Gillian Ragsdale Ph.D. on October 9, 2013

Are we all born co-operators or is it something we have to learn?