FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Charles Duhigg’s Supercommunicators

From the author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life.   1 The Matching Principle How to Fail at Recruiting Spies If Jim Lawler was being honest with himself, he had to admit that he was terrible

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A letter to educators from Ros Ben-Moshe, author of The Laughter Effect

Dear Educators, We’ve all heard the adage “laughter is the best medicine”, The Laughter Effect: How to Build Joy, Resilience and Positivity in Your Life is its prescription.  A body-mind practice that incorporates wisdom from laughter therapy, health promotion, neuroscience, positive psychology and mindfulness, it adds an innovative new dimension to self-care and wellbeing. My

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Adam Grant’s Hidden Potential

Hidden Potential offers a new framework for raising aspirations and exceeding expectations. Adam Grant weaves together groundbreaking evidence, surprising insights, and vivid storytelling that takes readers from the classroom to the boardroom, the playground to the Olympics, and underground to outer space. Grant explores how to build the character skills and motivational structures to realize

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Do You Teach Psychology?

You can search for books across this discipline through our course lists, which cover Abnormal & Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Physiological Psychology, and Social & Applied Psychology. Here is a small selection of the books available:   Abnormal and Clinical Psychology Cognitive Psychology Developmental Psychology Physiological Psychology Social and Applied Psychology

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How to Face Your External and Internal Monsters with Compassionate Challenge

A Q&A Sarah Rose Cavanagh Cover design: Carol Chu. Author photo: Sharona Jacobs Photography   Statistics indicate that mental health problems like depression and anxiety have been skyrocketing among youth in recent years. The widespread isolation and disrupted learning during the pandemic years has only accelerated this crisis. The ever-present question today is, what changes can

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Watch Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide share insights from their revised and updated book The Dyslexic Advantage

What if we viewed dyslexia as a learning and processing style rather than as a learning disorder? Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide use their impressive backgrounds in neurology and education to debunk the standard deficit-based approach to dyslexia. People typically define “dyslexia” as a reading and spelling disorder. But through published research studies, clinical observations, and interviews with

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Psychologist Devon Price on Autism and the New Faces of Neurodiversity

Contributed by Devon Price, PhD, author of Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity I didn’t find out I was Autistic until after I completed my PhD in psychology in my mid-20s. Aside from a few brief mentions of the disability in a graduate-level developmental psychology class, I hadn’t learned Autism in my psychology

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Books for Mental Health support for Students

While students deal with the normal stress of college, the pandemic has introduced another level of distress and obstacles for them to take on. Senior college administrators have made assisting students in maintaining their mental health their number one priority. University Business recently reported about students from Connecticut College who shared their own experiences of

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Confessions of the Flesh, the fourth volume in Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality

By Caitlin Landuyt, Editor, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group   I am being haunted by the ghost of Michel Foucault. Each time I think I’ve read or studied him for the last time, something conspires to bring him back into my life. My last foray into his philosophy was in grad school, where I was getting

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