When People Cannot Understand the Words of the Gods

Specific facets rather than broad personality factors are more successful in predicting cross-border mobility. Call Data Records can successfully be used to analyze people’s cross-border mobility and dynamics. Younger people who are open to new values and experiences, and seeking novelty and excitement, are more likely to travel abroad.

When a loved one engages in behavior that is scary or dangerous, it's natural to urgently want them to stop. Even if a behavior is destructive, it can still serve a purpose for an individual, leading them to feel ambivalent about stopping. Instead of accusing a loved one of being...

Midlife isn’t completely magical nor completely miserable. The truth is somewhere in the middle. There’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all experience of midlife. Midlife is a time for figuring out who you’ve been, who you are, and who you are becoming. Midlife can be messy—especially for...

Whether or not dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder, is "real" is a much-debated question. Different models agree that identities in DID are "enacted" but disagree about just what that means. It's likely that the meaning of enacted identities in DID varies across cultures, social settings,...

If you have a child who is a big reactor, connection and co-regulation require a whole different set of tools. Being a "gentle" parent doesn't mean that your child is going to make you feel like you are being gentle. There is no gentle parenting without clear limits and boundaries.

When zero-gen daters are exposed to a novel romantic situation, they could freeze. ‎. Any breach of the social script could lead to social exclusion. How to relate to people is a delicate dynamic that frustrates many zero-gen daters.‎. Mohammed is a pseudonym of a zero-gen dater through ‎whom I...

The shadow that follows us in life is not our silhouette cast on sidewalks but, rather, the reflection of what we say and do. Misinformation and disinformation casts shadows of doubt. Scammers are having a heyday because we want to believe what we hear and read. We were walking home...

Older men share their wisdom for how to age meaningfully. One common theme readers suggest is to mentor younger people. A second theme is to focus on relationships with other people as a way to develop meaning. I’ve written two posts recently about aging men and irrelevance. In the first,...