Neurotic fears and phobias are puzzling and perplexing, for they run counter to our practical interests and to all common sense.

Once again, we analyze a joke for insight into life’s deeper questions. Apparently it’s an old joke, but I only first read it in the June 2010

Japanese scientists have been making rapid strides creating automatons that look and act like human beings.But, in recent years,

On the first Friday of every month, various cities throughout America hold an art walk. If you’ve never been on one, it simply consists of

“Born on a mountain top in Tennessee Greenest state in the Land of the Free Raised in the woods so's he knew every tree

When we find ourselves perplexed by behavior that seems incomprehensible, or irrational, we turn to psychology for insight.

If self-knowledge were an easy thing, Socrates would not have spent his entire life pursuing it. And yet, most people believe that they know

Last Tuesday, I gave a seminar at a local college, on the psychology of food. The class explored the psychological notion

When is a hamburer not a hamburger? When the activity of eating is influenced by a host of complex concerns, from emotional

"Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection. That is why even people who were indifferent to one another rejoice so much when they meet

You can tell a lot about yourself from the jokes that make you laugh. And you can tell a lot from those jokes that don’t go down so well, in your system.

slydini.jpgMight it be that we enjoy magic for reasons that are far deeper than we realize? Magic tricks are, indeed, symbolic.