“Even if a character can't talk back to you or otherwise engage with you, it makes sense that if you get home at night and spend an hour or two (or more, we don't judge) watching a TV show, you might get really attached to them because they bring you joy or cheer you up after a rough day. And feeling…”— Kimberly Truong, refinery29.com
“Many of the classic, show-stopping experiments have lately turned out to be wrong, fraudulent, or outdated. Yet, many introductory psychological textbooks have yet to be updated. And it’s high time that we teach the next generation of students to understand them this way.”— Brian Resnick, vox.com
“What none of this addresses, of course, is why someone might hate their body. There is no inherent unhappiness to womanhood, or to fatness, or to blackness, or to anything else that American beauty standards have long treated as a problem. The conditions under which we loathe ourselves are socially…”— Amanda Mull, racked.com
“Whether they’re humping them, cuddling them for security or simply touching them to be reassured of their place in this world, it’s clear that there are still a lot of men who are not quite ready to give up their teddy.”— Andrew Fiouzi, melmagazine.com
“People who win keep winning because they play safe, while people who lose can keep losing because they're risking too much.”— JR Thorpe, bustle.com
“Processing trauma doesn’t feel good but it does good. Procrastinating feels good but it doesn’t do good. If you let feelings totally control your actions, you will never progress.”— Brianna Wiest, forbes.com
“As Felitti spoke to the 183 people in the program, he found 55 percent had been sexually abused. One woman said she put on weight after she was raped because 'overweight is overlooked, and that’s the way I need to be.' It turned out many of these women had been making themselves obese for an unconsc…”— Johann Hari, huffingtonpost.com
“For a long time I thought I had a severe sleep disorder. But it wasn’t normal insomnia and I wasn’t lying awake counting sheep. I was working and working and working. I was irritable and in constant fear of letting people down. It turns out that I was experiencing a form of mania. I guess my depress…”— Mariah Carey, people.com
“We don't presume anyone is beyond improvement until we really have tried everything we have in our arsenal.”— Mitch Abrams, vice.com
“People who described others as enthusiastic, happy, kind-hearted, courteous, emotionally stable, and capable were most likely to possess those characteristics themselves.”— Amy Morin, inc.com
“The more negatively I reacted to my negative feelings, the greater the likelihood I would be starting to set the stage for a neurotic pattern. Imagine, for example, if I hated the feelings and the event so much that I hated myself for causing them. Or if I hated the girls with thoughts like, 'All gi…”— Gregg Henriques, psychologytoday.com
“Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz grew up in a tough housing project. Oprah Winfrey faced horrifying abuse as a girl. Eleanor Roosevelt's father drank himself to death. These aren't isolated incidents. According to a fascinating recent Wall Street Journal article by clinical psychologist Meg Jay, ch…”— Jessica Stillman, inc.com
“The first of these insights is that when cues are available, people tend to conform to expected behaviors and implicit rules. This is why we’re less likely to order a stiff drink at dinner when the rest of the table ordered water. But donations are often kept private. Fortunately, good design could…”— Omar Parbhoo, behavioralscientist.org
“In a classic experiment from the 1970s, seminary students were instructed to go to a specific location. On the way there, they walked past a slouched-over man who was groaning audibly. Although all the students passed the man, they were each given a varying sense of urgency by the researchers before…”— Omar Parbhoo, behavioralscientist.org
“Students should not be expected to cure the ills of our genuinely troubled classmates, or even our friends, because we first and foremost go to school to learn.”— Isabelle Robinson, nytimes.com
“It is not the obligation of children to befriend classmates who have demonstrated aggressive, unpredictable or violent tendencies. It is the responsibility of the school administration and guidance department to pinpoint those students and get them the help that they need, even if it is extremely sp…”— Isabelle Robinson, nytimes.com
“What, then, is the real relationship between art and trade? Agonistic? Complementary? The question, suggesting something like a creative sanctum shimmering a few meters above the room in which you punch a clock or schedule a meeting, supposes that aesthetic experience is categorically different from…”— Katy Waldman, nytimes.com
“Each day, we woke up when we wanted, had a leisurely breakfast, spent four or five hours at a beach, did some reading, then had a relaxing lunch before heading back to our hotel room—usually between 4pm and 6pm—to start working for the day (the advantage of being at least 6 hours ahead of the United…”— Pia Silva, forbes.com
“The size of a body was never just the size of a body. Thinness was a door that opened to a world of happy marriages, perfect children, enviable careers, meteoric ascents. It was a divine healing fantasy: all the wrongs in their lives would be righted by endless self-flagellation, and the mantra of t…”— Your Fat Friend, medium.com
“I honestly don’t blame intelligent, rational people for being skeptical. I don’t know that I would believe it either unless I had firsthand experience with it.”— Garrett Jackson, huffingtonpost.com