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Who Cares About the Economy of Extramarital Affairs?

30 August, 2008 (07:44) | Health, Psychology

“We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.” Mark Twain
The loss experienced when a partner engages in a romantic affair is often described as a loss of resources, such as love, time, attention, sexual energy, and financial resources. The unfaithful person is described as transferring such resources from the spouse to the lover. [...]

Who will you vote for in November?

30 August, 2008 (07:44) | Health, Psychology

No matter what your politics, you have to admit that Barack Obama gave an electric speech in Denver at the Democratic Convention. He tried to set the terms for the debate for the Presidential election to be about global issues rather than a particular candidate’s stance on hot-button issues like abortion, gun-control, and gay marriage. [...]

Deconstructing Consumer Confidence

28 August, 2008 (21:53) | Health, Psychology

Why are Americans so gloomy? It may be all about the yoked dog and “learned helplessness.”
We have a market paradox on our hands. Consumer confidence is close to a 40-year low, suggesting that the economy is in worse shape now than in times that seemed far darker, such as the early 1980s, when both inflation [...]

The Root of All Evil

25 August, 2008 (10:54) | Health, Psychology

Comedy Central has a new show starring comedian Lewis Black entitled Root of All Evil. Each week it features a new, tongue-in-cheek debate regarding which of two entities most merits the honor used in the show’s title. So, for example, one episode tackled the question of which group poses the greatest threat to society, PETA [...]

Mind-Body Methods for Alopecia Areata

23 August, 2008 (21:17) | Health, Psychology

Although many women find bald men to be sexy, aplocia areata can be emotionally devastating to a man or woman.  Mind-body medicine may be "help-on-the-way" for this type of baldness and hair loss.  In 1962, my father lost all of his hair in few weeks.  The diagnosis was alopecia areata, which now considered an auto-immune [...]