Absolutely lonely people have few personal in...

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life...

Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about...

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger,...

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter h...

As a life coach, I love makeovers, from new clothes to surgery, pedicures to highlights. But redoing makes you...

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful...

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't...

Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently....

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we...

Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori ri...

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyda...