Dec 26th, 2008 · Are you vowing to stop smoking or start exercising on Jan. 1, 2009? Nearly half of U.S. adults will make resolutions to change in the New Year. Clinical psychologist John Norcross explains how to increase your odds for success.
Dec 2nd, 2008 · When people are worried about money, it can affect them emotionally and psychologically. Continuing our series of reports on how the economic recession is transforming American life, Farai Chideya talks with Stephanie Smith, a clinical psychologist, about the effects of the economy on mental health.
Nov 28th, 2008 · Why is it so important to have turkey and stuffing on Thanksgiving? Psychologists discuss how mood, memory and sense of smell can influence what ends up on the dinner table. Find out why aromas trigger vivid memories and how the brain tricks the stomach into overeating.
Oct 20th, 2008 · Where Three Roads Meet, the new novel from British psychologist and fiction writer Sally Vickers, is set in the spring of 1923, and features an invented encounter between the ailing Sigmund Freud and a blind, ancient soothsayer.
Sep 14th, 2008 · Hanif Kureishi is one of England's best-known novelists and screenwriters. Race and sex and cultural divides in London have always been Kureishi's territory, and they still are. In his latest novel, Something To Tell You, the characters are older, their sexual foibles darker — and the narrator is a psychologist named Jamal Khan — a man who has a lot of guilt.
Aug 22nd, 2008 · Is persuasion an art or a science? We talk to Robert Cialdini, a social psychologist, who thinks a little psychology can improve your shot at getting what you want.
Aug 19th, 2008 · Over the weekend, the American Psychological Association debated a resolution that would restrict the role of psychologists in military interrogations. Two psychologists weigh in.
Aug 15th, 2008 · New allegations about a psychologist at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, underscore a long-running dispute within the American Psychological Association about a psychologists' role in detainee interrogations. The APA is split on the issue.