Katherine Phelps

Author Bobby Azarian is a cognitive neuroscientist, a researcher in the Visual Attention and Cognition Lab at George Mason University, and a science writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times and Scientific American, among others. His research has been published in journals including Cognition & Emotion and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. He also runs the […]

Kubler-Ross wrote in the 1960s about how we experience grief. It has been shown that we do not pass through stages of grief, but what was once described that way still illustrates the many ways we may grapple with it. Here are five ways we may respond to grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance Denial: […]

Everyone is born into circumstances that they cannot control: ethnicity, nationality, class, health, etc. Everyone is raised by a family and within a culture that has particular outlooks. When you are a child at first you just accept the knowledge being given you, because you have no other knowledge with which to compare it and […]

Don’t even read this article until you have watched the video link below. We are animals. I do not mean that in the pejorative sense. I mean that in the sense that our behaviour, whether for good or ill, is not that different from those beings with whom we share this planet. What happens to […]

The US currently has a president with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Three fields of work particularly attract people with NPD: media, politics, and of all things…charity/causes. These are places where people, who demand all attention be focussed on them, can achieve steady ego-supply. In theatre we already have a term for this: Diva. It gets […]

An End We are without question seeing the end of an era–perhaps the end of a collection of eras: the industrial era, the era of capitalism, and the anthropocene are all on the verge of collapsing. In the stages of grief humanity is feeling, many sense the darkness of ending but are lost in denial. […]

Every nation divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. In the mansion of humanity there are three floors. On the top floor live the matriarch and the patriarch of the controlling family. On the middle floor are all the children and grand-children. On the […]

Okay, people! It’s time to sharpen your pencils (or charge up your laptops). Now is the time to think big and make out your wish list. We all need to be ready for the next couple of Federal elections. Our democracy is seriously broken. Some of it was broken from the beginning. Some of it […]

So, we have people who want to convert you to their way of thinking. This could be for reasons: Sometimes to make the world a better place, Sometimes to validate those people’s sense of self. “Hey! I have great ideas! You should agree with me, so that I can feel secure that I have great […]

I have spent much of my adult life trying to get people activated. It can be hard and discouraging at times. People don’t want their lives ruffled. They don’t want to self reflect and find themselves feeling guilty. They are scared of the consequences of stepping outside of the norm. I promise you, if you […]