Three words have been weighing heavily on my mind lately: unconscionable, outrage, and cynicism. I haven't used unconscionable too often in my life; it's an extreme and unforgiving descriptor. But in the last year (okay, the last decade really, but you have to let go sometime), unconscionable has been a...

Pete Cashmore, the founder and CEO of Mashable, a well-read social-media blog, suggested in a recent CNN column that the real-time Web is one of the top 10 Web trends of 2010. Real-time Web means being able to send and receive information almost instantaneously....

I recently read an article by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman in which he described the renewed battle between so-called freshwater economists (so named because they are largely based at the University of Chicago and other Midwestern universities) and saltwater economists (based primarily at Princeton, MIT, Berkeley and other...

For those of you who follow my Psychology of Technology blog posts, you know that I'm a bit cynical about how technology is impacting us, particularly when it comes to how we define relationships. My worries aren't so great that I'm looking to wipe out our communications grid with an...

In the last 15 years alone, there has been Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Jude Law, Eliot Spitzer, Kobe Bryant, Mark Sanford, Alex Rodriguez, David Letterman, the list goes on. Now, it's déjà vu all over again. Another successful man caught with his paws in the honey jar (pun intended). But...

So what do Tom Brady, LeBron James, Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, Usain Bolt, Annika Sorenstam, Michael Phelps, Lance Armstrong, and Lisa Leslie have that you don't?

This question has been on the minds of many people of late with the recent publication of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers and Daniel Coyle's The...

Let me apologize in advance; I just can't help myself. The more I read about reality TV, the more it just gets under my skin and the less control I have over writing about it.

Reality TV is my whipping boy. It exemplifies and makes admirable some of the worst...

Is civility dead? It sure seems so. In recent years, the quality of discourse in America has declined dramatically. Rarely in discussions of any import these days, whether politics, religion, the economy, education, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the list goes on, is there a respectful exchange of ideas....

I already wrote a post about Elizabeth Lambert, the newest member of the Sports Hall of Shame, for her unsportspersonlike behavior during a recent college soccer game. But I had another perspective I wanted to share because of all the attention she has gotten in the media.

I actually...

Elizabeth Lambert has become an overnight sensation ... but not in a good way. Thanks to the viral power of youtube, her decidedly unsportspersonlike (we can't say unsportsmanlike any longer) behavior during a recent college soccer game has landed her in the Deplorable Behavior Hall of Fame along side such...

Have you ever thought about how far we've come in our ability to connect with others and how far we'll go? I've been thinking a lot about connectivity recently and have always found that looking back to where we came from can help...

In a recent blog post, I railed against popular culture as being an unhealthy force in our lives. In response, Dr. Lawrence Rubin, a fellow blogger who studies popular culture, commented: "If we simply consider popular culture as banality, it certainly seems meaningless...even potentially destructive. However, if instead we...

Of all the areas of life that computer and communications technology seems to be impacting the most is its influence on relationships. Mobile phones, texting, facebook, and Twitter are just a few of the ways in which relationships are being redefined, established, and...