Clueless? Lying? Loyal? Explaining Why He Disagrees With You
What is with him? How can he believe such garbage? It's so bad it's not even wrong. It's worse than wrong! Sometimes I think he's just clueless. He si...
MIND READERS DICTIONARY : Mind Readers Dictionary
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Tools for tracking motives in thought and conversation; tools for reading between the lines with greater comprehension, a word of the week service that translates cutting-edge insights from the life and social sciences for application to everyday life produced by Jeremy Sherman Ph.D., M.P.P. a guy who wonders a lot, researches the origins and nature of doubt, ambiguity, purpose, life, significance and the fundamental patterns that drive our decisions. Sherman also writes a blog for Psychology Today called "Ambigamy: Insights for the deeply romantic and deeply skeptical."
How Good Intentions Make Us Dumb and Mean
That's the fourth time she's done it and this time you're not going to let it pass. Carefully, diplomatically you tell her that she has got to stop in...
The Double-Entry Bookkeeping Secret to Building Stable Loving Relationships
"The secret to a stable relationship like ours," she said proudly," is give and take, a real 50/50 balance." I should look at her while she's talking ...
The Silent Treatment: What It Means Personally and Cosmically
Maybe they just didn't hear you. Or maybe they heard you just fine and have decided that you're an idiot, not even worth responding to. Maybe they got...
Align for Freedom: Hippie/Conservative parallels on the paradox of dictating liberty
After I left the world's largest hippie commune but before I cut off my long hair, it occurred to me that the two central tenets of our hippie beliefs...
The surprising secret to detecting villains before they get you
Do you watch movies and TV, read fiction, follow politics or like good gossip? If you do, then chances are you're a lifelong student of Villainology, ...
Psychopath Cowboys, Sociopath Herds: A New Theory of How Evil Happens
If you want a simple but accurate explanation for why civilizations sometimes veer toward evil, here's a theory worth considering: Psychopaths are ove...
Pure-trefaction: How To Be an Immoral Relativist
In economist Ha-Joon Chang's wonderful book, "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism," the first of the 23 things is that there are no absolut...
Deadly Diagnoses: "My ex-partner? Yeah well, turned out to be a sociopath"
My ex-partner is a sociopath. No really. I hope you believe me. But then I also hope you doubt me too. A sociopath has little or no conscience, and "t...
Extended Double Standard: The Bible as Killer App
I'm entitled to do what you, in my same circumstances would not be entitled to do--that's a double standard. Being civilized means trying to constrain...