Author: Loren Soeiro

In therapy, challenging patients’ ideas about long-term relationships. Article written by Julia Query.

http://www.salon.com/2013/02/05/sexual_adventures_in_therapy/

How “fresh starts” like New Year’s Day can help people make positive changes in their lives, and how we can get better at sticking to these changes.  Article written by Maria Konnikova.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/12/why-we-make-resolutions-and-why-they-fail.html

Reverse psychology versus the concept of reactance — versus the universal desire to understand the rules we are given.  Article written by Esther Inglis-Arkell.

http://io9.com/is-there-really-such-a-thing-as-reverse-psychology-1484757814

Our country’s cultural emphasis on consumerism is not improving Americans’ subjective sense of well-being.  What can we do about it?  Article written by Carolyn Gregoire.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/15/psychology-materialism_n_4425982.html

“Affluenza,” successfully utilized in the defense of a 16-year-old driving under the influence, is not a recognized mental illness; it may explain, but it doesn’t exculpate.  Article written by Christopher J. Ferguson.

http://ideas.time.com/2013/12/14/psychologist-affluenza-is-junk-science/