By DAVID Z. HAMBRICK and ELIZABETH J. MEINZ Published: November 19, 2011   NYT Popular research says 10,000 hours of practice is the key to success. Not so fast. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/opinion/sunday/sorry-strivers-talent-matters.html

By ALINA TUGEND   NYT Published: November 18, 2011 Research shows that, in spite of what they would like to think about themselves, most people do not act ethically when put on the spot. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/19/your-money/why-doing-the-ethical-thing-isnt-automatic.html

Time Healthline By MAIA SZALAVITZ   Friday, November 11, 2011 Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/11/bystander-psychology-why-some-witnesses-to-crime-do-nothing/#ixzz1dbPAaXwd

By Paul Anderson and Sara Konrath The Chronicle of Higher Education August 3, 2011 The troubling conclusion of a recent study by a team of social psychologists (including one of us, Sara Konrath) is that American college students have been scoring lower and lower on a standardized empathy test over the past three decades. http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Should-We-Care-What/128420/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

by  Sarah Hoffman   SALON  Monday Feb  21, 2011 21:01 ET Moms ask if my “feminine” son is gay. Strangers tell me I’m being too permissive. Here’s what they don’t understand http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/02/21/son_looks_great_in_dress/index.html

By DEBORAH TANNEN Published: October 25, 2010 NYT The key to why having sisters makes people happier — men as well as women — may lie not in the kind of talk they exchange but in the fact of talk. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/health/26essay.html

By KATIE THOMAS    Published: October 12, 2010  NYT A transgender woman filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the L.P.G.A., arguing that its requirement that competitors be “female at birth” violates California civil rights law. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/sports/golf/13lawsuit.html

By William Wan Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 11, 2010; 1:07 AM For the past two years, a small army of therapists in the United States has been getting up at ungodly hours and staying up late into the night to teach the fundamentals of Freud to counterparts on the other side of the world. [...]