The paperback edition of our book Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters is going to be published tomorrow (02 September 2008), which means that it’s been exactly one year since the billionaire adventurer Steve Fossett went missing.
On 04 September 2007, the day of the hardcover publication of the book, I had a brief appearance on [...]
When I was a kid growing up in England one of my best friends was a lad named Tim Carter. Tim lived in a big house with his parents, three siblings and a variety of animals. I used to spend a lot of time there and, being from a far more modest background [...]
Over the weekend, Mark Sanchez, University of Southern California’s star quarterback, had something of an amazing football game. His team defeated Virginia by the monster score of 52-7, while Sanchez himself completed 26 of 35 passes for a career high 338 yards, including three touchdowns. The reason this is "amazing" isn’t because three weeks [...]
The effect of culture on the field of psychology has become a main consideration for researchers and clinicians. In the delivery of appropriate and comprehensive treatment, some may feel that if everyone is treated the same that you are addressing the issue of cultural differences by acting for the larger concept of global humanity. Yet [...]
So, dear readers, how did I defend myself to my possibly-future boss, Billie Dawn, at an Au Bon Pain café in the Back Bay area of Boston, where we were both there attending the APA convention? Recall she asked with no small degree of incredulity, You’re a media psychologist — how can you [...]
