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Everyday Psychology: Rock star professor or memory magician? Perhaps you recall.

http://www.everydaypsychology.com/2014/11/rock-star-professor-or-memory-magician.html

Rock star professor or memory magician? This is a slightly longer version of an article originally published at the Huffington Post. The last four paragraphs were cut by the editor. I think this version has a better ending. The submission to HuffPo was invited - it was to provide accompaniment for a HuffPost TED Weekend video featuring Loftus (" Why Your Memories Can't Be Trusted. Elizabeth Loftus spoke at a forensic mental health conference in Monterey last year. They both nodded eagerly. Loftus ( et al).

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Everyday Psychology: Does Therapy Work?

http://www.everydaypsychology.com/2006/11/does-therapy-work.html

Countless studies have shown that psychotherapeutic treatment works. The effects have been measured in terms of improved social functioning, relief from anxiety, reductions in depression, and in just about every other way that improvement and effectiveness can be defined. Psychologists have demonstrated that providing access to mental health treatment is one of the very best ways that America can reduce health care costs. This has been known for thirty years in the research literature. Unfortunat...

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Everyday Psychology: Table of Contents

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Psychological Health and Psychological Issues. Career, Workplace and in the Organization. Articles about Psychology and Psychologists. Aaron Antonovsky's insight on observing Holocaust survivors. What is workplace retaliation? It's about making people afraid. A Yale Psychologist Calls for the End of Individual Psychotherapy? Did I read that correctly? When it comes to psychological health, management just doesn't get it. The DSM: more like the Boy Scout Handbook than the Bible. The Psychology of Netflix.

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Everyday Psychology: Meaning and Purpose in Life: Commonplace or Hard to Come By?

http://www.everydaypsychology.com/2015/01/meaning-and-purpose-in-life-commonplace.html

Meaning and Purpose in Life: Commonplace or Hard to Come By? This article was originally published at the Huffington Post. In all cultures and at all times, humans have sought to make sense of their existence. Man's search for meaning is a quest as ancient as the dawn of human consciousness. For at least 100,000 years, humans have buried the dead with rituals and with artifacts, apparently believing that life involves something more than just running from the lion, hunting, gathering, and mating. Anythin...

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Everyday Psychology: The Sense of Coherence*

http://www.everydaypsychology.com/2007/04/sense-of-coherence.html

The Sense of Coherence*. Optimal human performance - at home, in school, in the community or at work - requires that a person experience themselves as having a sense of coherence. This experience also determines how you will respond and whether you can cope with stress. Beyond the specific stress factors that one might encounter in life, and beyond your perception and response to those events, what determines whether stress will cause you harm is whether or not the stress violates your sense of coherence.

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Everyday Psychology: What is workplace retaliation? It's about making people afraid.

http://www.everydaypsychology.com/2012/03/what-is-workplace-retaliation-its-about.html

What is workplace retaliation? It's about making people afraid. What is workplace retaliation? It is not what most people think it is. Retaliation is not the same as harassment or “hostilte workplace,” and it is not about people getting revenge or “getting back" at anyone. Retaliation is about making people afraid to complain or to assert their rights. It is a subtle, but important distinction. Was it a matter of discrimination? The common sense meaning of the term "retaliation" is not useful in Court be...

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Everyday Psychology: This blog is about everyday psychology

http://www.everydaypsychology.com/2010/09/this-blog-is-about-everyday-psychology.html

This blog is about everyday psychology. I am a professional psychologist in independent practice. Most of my work is in the criminal justice system. I am trained as a clinical psychologist, not just as a psychotherapist. Before I specialized, I studied the field of psychology broadly and conducted research. I have expertise in a number of areas. In some way, everything in psychology has something to do with everyday life and everyday experience. Not what you would expect. A lot of what people think they ...

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Everyday Psychology: McDonalds Mocked for Remarkable Stress Hormone Discovery?

http://www.everydaypsychology.com/2014/02/mcdonalds-mocked-for-remarkable-stress.html

McDonalds Mocked for Remarkable Stress Hormone Discovery? Banksy gives foot massage. To relieve an executive's stress. New York City minimum wage workers have organized at FastFoodForward.org. Thinking that McDonalds is going to give them a raise. They are just poor people complaining about poverty, so to get attention, these activists decided to mock McDonalds. It’s not rocket science and the company is fair game. The headlines at Salon.com. Caught my eye: “. Olive oil can prevent the blues? Message is ...

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Everyday Psychology: Zero Tolerance Policies Gone Wild!

http://www.everydaypsychology.com/2014/02/zero-tolerance-policies-gone-wild.html

Zero Tolerance Policies Gone Wild! A teenager in Montgomery County Tennessee. Has become the new poster-boy for a continuing news drama that should perhaps be called: Zero Tolerance Policies Gone Wild! Meanwhile in Florida, legislation is advancing that would prevent school districts from punishing students for "brandishing a partially consumed pastry or other food item to simulate a firearm or weapon." It is called the Pop-Tart Bill. The American Psychological Association. APA) issued a task force repor...

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Everyday Psychology: Aaron Antonovsky's insight on observing Holocaust survivors.

http://www.everydaypsychology.com/2013/05/aaron-antonovskys-insight.html

Aaron Antonovsky's insight on observing Holocaust survivors. An interview I gave to the Sacramento Bee. Was published this morning. I was asked about the escape of Amanda Berry with her child, and the rescue of two other women after years being caged in a house in Cleveland by a sadist. When interviewed, I discussed an observation about Holocaust survivors that was made by the late Aaron Antonovsky, an American-born medical sociologist. And a term he coined: salutogenesis. Study of "adaptation to climact...