Frequent inappropriate apologizing is often a learned behavior in response to a specific form of persistent childhood mistreatment. In many people, this symptom may be the result of being raised by a

One of my all-time favorite studies in psychology is about pain. It’s an elegant experiment performed by Kurt Gray and Dan Wegner. They wrote: “When someone steps on your toe on purpose, it seems to

I used to direct a study-abroad program that took students to Tartu, Estonia, for eight weeks and then to Fez, Morocco, for another eight weeks. Living in a foreign country is always full of

Over a decade ago, I wrote a post called “Don’t Try to Reason with Unreasonable People.” It’s the most popular piece I’ve ever written. A year prior, I’d escaped a destructive relationship with the

“Are you mad at me?” I asked my friend the other day, to which she looked at me quizzically before responding, “Why would I be mad at you?” I couldn’t answer that. I assumed things had changed over

The Pretoria High Court in South Africa has sentenced a serial r@pist, Nkosinathi Emmanuel Phakathi (40) to 42 life terms and 791 years and 6 months direct imprisonment. The National Prosecuting