Let me begin this new blog for Psychology Today by introducing myself. I’m a Harvard doctor whose work focuses on helping people to recover from injuries and illnesses. I’m a medical doctor (M.D.) and have post-medical school training in a small specialty that many people haven’t heard of called Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R). Doctors [...]
One day it happens, the dreaded event that will change your life, the more ominous because you don’t know what form it will take or when it will occur. To me it happened on July 22, 2004, at two a.m. on a Maine coastal island in a remote seaside cabin, with no electricity, plumbing or [...]
Evolutionary psychology isn’t all about sex. It all extrapolates to reproductive success eventually, but in my opinion some of the most interesting proposed psychological adaptations are far removed from the textbook miscellany of waist-to-hip ratios, facial symmetries, mate retention, and sexual pageantry.
For example, I’m writing this brief post while on a flight to London, and [...]
Americans don’t like dirty sex, to judge from recent popular films about sex.
Zack and Miri Make a Porno is a new movie by Kevin Smith starring Seth Rogan. Rogan (who, along with Judd Apatow, made The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up) is the zhlubby protagonist who screws the good-looking blond (in Knocked [...]
This is Part 5 of a series on how the next president’s personality may influence the country and its direction…
Presidential leadership cannot be considered apart from the president’s intelligence. Love it or hate it, intelligence predicts a number of key outcomes - including how highly a president’s leadership is rated.
Presidential historians (and psychologists) often [...]
