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Edited by Jill Wright,
It's almost a year since I wrote about my concerns that people were being encouraged to diagnose themselves and others as psychopaths, in a piece about suggestions by psychology professor Paul Verhaeghe that the prevailing social and economic climate were encouraging psychopathic personality traits. Judging from an article in The Guardian last week by two British researchers, Dr Molly Crockett...
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I wonder how many health bureaucrats in Australia and overseas read the British Psychological Society's Research Digest? If so, they might be feeling a little sheepish, if not anxious or even depressed about a new meta-analysis by psychologists in Norway that indicates that CBT or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - which policy makers have settled on as the gold standard for...
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Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull's job title is a relatively accurate description of his talents, but he must have spent the past few days wondering quite why he allowed the perpetually professionally outraged Andrew Bolt to lure him into publicly advising the ABC's Leigh Sales and Emma Alberici to be less aggressive and more "forensic" in their interviews with government ministers....
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The BBC has some invaluable advice for its audience on the psychology of sales - an exploration of the psychological tricks that sales people use to get you to buy their products. Psychologists have been studying the science of influence for decades, and they know quite a lot about the techniques that the top salesmen use to mess with their...
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It looks like someone at The Age must have read my post on how marrying a conscientious spouse is the best thing you can do for your career - based on research by psychologists at Washington University. Fairfax journalist Sylvia Pennington's piece in the Small Business section included some confirmation from a couple of businessmen on the contributions their wives...
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The economic craziness of government austerity policies is well argued by experts like Nobel laureate Paul Krugman (his latest is here) and Oxford University's Professor Michael Wren-Lewis at the Mainly Macro blog, although the logic seems beyond the understanding of all but a few of our politicians and business leaders. Unfortunately, the emotional effects of this economic simple-mindedness are scarcely...
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Are you worried that your stressful existence is going to shorten your life? Have you been told that you have a "Type A personality" and that you're at much greater risk than normal of having a heart attack?It's by no means unusual for our psychologists at Psychology Melbourne to have to help anxious clients deal with these fears. Fortunately, we can...
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It's not the sort of journal to which one would normally turn for marital advice, but the latest version of the Harvard Business Review has an important message for its readers: if you want success, marry a conscientious spouse. The article is based on psychologists' study of data collected on thousands of Australian households to analyse the effects on people's...
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Have you by any chance noticed, ever since you bought that oh-so-useful smartphone, that you've suddenly become surrounded by people whose ideas and conversation ... well ... people whose IQs and personality and all-round attractiveness are inferior to your own? Do you find relating to those people is a poor substitute for a fascinating session with your little electronic friend...
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I imagine a lot of psychologists would feel quite ambivalent about some recent research picked up by the British Psychological Society's Research Digest on the way clients feel when their treatment doesn't work. At Psychology Melbourne, however, it very much justifies a good deal of the extra effort that we have made over several years to improve the outcome of...