It is not uncommon to hear people say, “I’m so jealous of…” or “I really envy…” or other phrases of covetousness. To some, this may be an initial reaction to a positive event or life change that has ...

In a previous post, I examined the psychological power of conjunctions, especially that warm, fuzzy, inclusive conjunction: and. Here we expand our focus to the psychological power of words in general ...

Why is all the news so negative? Maybe it’s because journalists are naturally drawn to aberrations — outliers from the norm — and those tend to be more bad than good. After all, a flight landing ...