Doing the Ethical Thing May Be Right, but It Isn’t Automatic
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
Bystander Psychology: Why Some Witnesses to Crime Do Nothing
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
What to Do About Declining Student Empathy
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
My son, the pink boy – Real Families
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
Why Sisterly Chats Make People Happier
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
Transgender Woman Sues L.P.G.A. Over Policy
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
Freud coming into fashion in China
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. […]
Intel Study Reveals Telehealth Will Dramatically Transform Health Care
May 18, 2010 11:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time SAN ANTONIO–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–AMERICAN TELEMEDICINE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING – Health care delivery in the United States will undergo dramatic changes over the next 10 years through the adoption of telehealth, according to a national survey of health care and information technology professionals sponsored by Intel Corporation. http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20100518005407/en
Don’t Write Off Men Just Yet
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF NYT Published: July 21, 2010 Are the gains made by women putting the sexes on an equal footing? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/opinion/22kristof.html