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Edited by Jill Wright,
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...
Edited by Jill Wright,
As I was out for my morning walk today I was overtaken by several youngsters on scooters and skateboards. They were on their way to school, and they were clearly happy with the prospect. It's a scene that must be duplicated many thousands of times every morning, all over Melbourne. Child psychologists love to see that sort of thing, because...
At Psychology Melbourne we've put a lot of effort over many years into helping clients learn how to manage their anger, with individual anger counselling and highly effective, affordable separate anger management classes for men and for women (because each experiences anger differently). The most recent of those classes ended recently, and will be repeated shortly. We've been advising clients for...
Edited by Jill Wright,
As I was out for my morning walk today I was overtaken by several youngsters on scooters and skateboards. They were on their way to school, and they were clearly happy with the prospect. It's a scene that must be duplicated many thousands of times every morning, all over Melbourne. Child psychologists love to see that sort of thing, because...
Edited by Jill Wright,
What an interesting week. As the Prime Minister pledged more consultations and "good government", including a fresh look at savings on health spending, on Wednesday evening I attended a lecture at the State Library by visiting Danish medical researcher Professor Peter Gøtzsche, who as founder of the Nordic Cochrane Centre is devoted to establishing the scientific evidence for medical research. Over...
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I've just started reading British cognitive neuroscientist Christian Jarrett's Great Myths of the Brain which debunks a good deal of the often dangerous junk that has sprung from bad neuroscience. These myths range from the common fallacy that we only use 10 per cent of our brains, that children are "left-brained" or "right-brained" - and accordingly pushed into different education...
Edited by Jill Wright,
Our team of business psychologists spends a lot of time helping companies assess individual personality styles and the way people fit into a workplace team. I'm surprised that a lot more individuals don't take advantage of this sort of service, because the knowledge you gain from an objective view of your own traits and how you can avoid conflict and...
Edited by Jill Wright,
Now might be a good time for a little social networking self-analysis. According to University of Melbourne psychologists and their counterparts at the University of Pennsylvania, social media can serve as a litmus test of community well-being. Their research, published in the journal Psychological Science, showed that Twitter tweets act as a psychological barometer, allowing them to predict elevated risks...