Five surprising principles for living, loving, and playing well with others.
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Psychology Today Magazine
September 2012
How to know when to reach for your dreams
Troubling new evidence links pesticide exposure with an array of health disorders in children.
Patients with rare diseases may be battling serious illnesses in isolation.
Sugar used in manufactured foods may be bad for the brain.
Discussing the nitty-gritty details of sex
A woman awaits passion replay, a guy is bored in bed.
My grandma's romanticism was rose-colored to be sure, but aware of its own rouge.
Pnina Aaronson's spiritual journey
Meet a modern kitchen scientist
The science of slumber, the art of decision-making, and the power of home
Can teachers intercept children's naive intuitions before they take permanent root?
A new way to detect and possibly prevent dyslexia.
Studies show that everyone's a little flexible with the facts.
How your character interacts with your paycheck
You choose a mate for many reasons—similarity to your parents is not among them.
The interpersonal conflicts that propelled history forward
Supporting the family is not their sole motivation.
Human smell is more highly evolved than we thought
Embracing emotional ambiguity does more for you than thinking positively all the time.
The mental health field is a tangle of theories and approaches. What will win out?
Turns out we can get better at predicting our future.
Teenage foolhardiness may be dangerous, but it's also socially vital—and malleable.
Sometimes sticking with something is a recipe for failure.
Shared physical activity binds us together—for better or for worse.
We give everything a gender—even when doing so doesn't make much sense.
Think independent voters are honorable upholders of democracy? not so fast.
Preparing those left behind.