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What’s Fair? Two Views of Government

FamilyPolitical PsychologyRelationships
Democrats and Republicans tend to see each other through the prisms of rigid negative beliefs. Could a more mutually respectful perspective enable us all to get along better?
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What Is Mental Illness? Does Trump Have One?

Political Psychology
When the term "mentally ill" is used to describe President Trump, is the term being used appropriately?
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What Domestic Batterers Can Teach Us About Terrorism

AbusePolitical Psychology
Families with skills for healthy parenting and cooperative partnering raise people who value cooperation. Cultures that allow violence at home produce terrorists. What can we do?
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The Creation of Hatred

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The phenomenon of parental alienation offers clues to understanding the rising tide of hatred currently flooding our country.
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The Kidnapped Girls in Nigeria, Modern Slavery, and You

AbusePolitical Psychology
Was Sochhi built with forced labor? Is sex trafficking real? Are you a slave?
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The Problem With Over-Emotional Political Rhetoric

CommunicationPolitical Psychology
Do you, or people you know, get too passionate when it comes to politics? If so, this experience is likely to sound familiar.
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Parental Alienation and Iran: Similar Pathology?

Cultural FactorsParental AlienationPolitical Psychology
Recognition of false narratives and projection can help protect you from people who genuinely do want to harm you.
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Protests: Potent or Impotent?

Conflict ResolutionPolitical Psychology
"You have to fight to feel good." In my twenties, when I was living in New York with a group of post-college friends, Bob was a tall handsome young man in our cadre who took this slogan about protests as his raison d'etre. But is it true? When are protests and fights good for you?
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Our COVID-19 Pandemic Strategy-Makers May Need a CBT Upgrade

HealthPolitical Psychology
Faulty thinking by decision-makers may be preventing better results in fighting the pandemic.
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Pakistan Could Use a Therapeutic Intervention

Conflict ResolutionPolitical Psychology
A Pakistani scholar of international relations has proposed a strategy for helping her country shift from a culture of violence to a culture of collaborative dialogue and cooperative conflict resolution. The program she proposes is remarkably similar to the work I do as a therapist with couples in conflict.
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How the Brits and the EU Could Botch Their Divorce

Conflict ResolutionPolitical PsychologyRelationships
With emotions running high, will anger, anxiety and depression cause all sides of this divorce to be losers?
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How Do Sex and Power Abuses Lead to Terrorism and War?

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What are the deeper motives underlying some jihadists' attraction to terrorism? It turns out that sex and power, used abusively, lie at the heart of Islamic terrorism.
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