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Developmental Psychology

Does Hate Live Among Us?

Stuart Muszynski | Posted 05.08.2013 | Impact
Read More: Steubenville Rape Case, Moral Education, Developmental Psychology, Education, American Values, Meanness, Boston Marathon Bombings, Millenial Generation, Bullying, American Culture, Bullying and Violence, School Bullying, Impact News
Stuart Muszynski

If meanness and hate are ingrained, albeit unfortunate parts of human nature, we must create communities that reinforce our other natural tendencies toward kindness and against meanness.

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How to Honor the Art (and Science) of Teaching

Sam Chaltain | Posted 12.24.2012 | Home
Read More: Education, Art, Brain, Science, Education Reform, Teaching, Developmental Psychology, Ted, Learning, Video, Home News
Sam Chaltain

The challenge is to find the balance between the elusive but evergreen art of teaching, and the emerging but illustrative science of the brain. We can do both. And we can start today.

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Kids Learn About Ownership Early on

Art Markman, Ph.D. | Posted 12.02.2012 | Science
Read More: Science, Psychology, Danny Kahneman, Parenting, Susan Gelman, Developmental Psychology, Children, Ownership, Science News
Art Markman, Ph.D.

An nice set of studies in the October, 2012 issue of Child Development by Susan Gelman, Erika Manczak, and Nicholaus Noles explored whether children are able to use aspects of an object's history to determine who owns it.

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Cows on the Beach: Exposing Our Political Shadows and Lessons on Sharing

Carol Smaldino | Posted 10.31.2011 | Politics
Read More: Sharing, Spanish Inquisition, The Shadow, Evangelicals, Republicans, God, Positive Psychology, Separation of Church and State, Developmental Psychology, Jungian, Calvinist, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

It is true. There were cows on the beach -- on a beach of a deliciously gorgeous, multicultural, blue-violet-turquoise sea in Corsica, the French isla...

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Discovery of the Continent of Emotion

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart, Psychoanalsysts, Intelligence Quotient, Psychology, Iraq, Human Ecology, Dick Cheney, Emotions, Humanistically, Mark Epstein, Humanism, Ancient Wisdom, David Brooks, Mythology, New York Times, Human-Climate, Afghanistan, Developmental Psychology, Healthy Living News
Carol Smaldino

By Carol Smaldino, CSW Commentary on David Brooks' op-ed "The New Humanism" in The New York Times on Monday, March 7, 2011. According to David Brook...

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The Human Climate: A Real Ecological Crisis

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Adversity, Human Climate, Measuring Up, Courage, Child Development, Bullying, Human-Ecology, The Shadow, Climate Crisis, Developmental Psychology, Diversity, Duality, Healthy Living News
Carol Smaldino

No matter how much we feel we care about our planet, to be confronted with the parts of ourselves that we may have amputated can be more alarming than anything else.

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M&M's & Me

Patricia Ferrone | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Eating Habits, Habits, Developmental-Psychology, Mindfulness, Self-Awareness, Behavior, Mindful Eating, Self Improvement, Self-Esteem, Behavioral Psychology, Healthy Living News
Patricia Ferrone

If I had a dollar for every package of M&M's I ate during my lifetime, I would not be sitting here blogging. I would be blogging from my yacht moored...

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Religulous Dogma

Philip Goldberg | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Atheist, Bible, Atheism, Religulous, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Stages of Faith, Ten Commandments, Ken Wilber, James Fowler, Religion, Bill Maher, Bill Maher Religulous, Jesus, Charlton Heston, Atheists, Richard Dawkins, Developmental Psychology, Spirituality, Healthy Living News
Philip Goldberg

Why do the militant atheists insist on this intellectual dishonesty? Maybe because confrontational language and side-splitting satire help them make their case.

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