Building Your Identity Using Possible Selves
Ok, the purpose of this site is to help people build their identities. On the one hand it sounds simple. Identity building involves figuring out who you are, where you want to go or who you want to become and how you are going to get there. But, you may well want to ask, how…
Narrating Yourself Through the Hole in the Black Everything Bagel
There is a lot of psychology in movies, but I have not blogged about it much because a lot of the time talking about the psychological minutia in a film often comes across as a nerdy or picky over-focus that takes the drama, fun, or sometimes the horror out of the film. It is not…
If Teenagers are the World’s Mine Canaries: What is Wrong with the Mine?
It has been theorized that the ancient historic wholesale movements of people out of Africa, into Europe and over land bridges to North America were initiated not by group elders but by adolescents who decided that their futures were better pursued in places other than where they were. The thought is that others followed, and…
Mindfulness and Stress: Using Stress to Develop an Informational Identity Building Approach
Every year as terms end, papers come due, and final exams approach, student stress levels, already high, spike upwards. What sort of a discipline would psychology be if it could not provide its students with some good, grounded advice about how to deal with the stress? Unfortunately, much of the time the advice offered to…
Understand Your Brain On Uncertainty
Are you feeling stressed and/or anxious these days? I would be surprised if you were not. Without dwelling on it and making yourself feel worse, what are the top three things that are making you feel stressed or anxious? We typically think of things or situations or circumstances when asked about what is causing us…