I’ve blogged before on the tension between kindness and honesty: how, often, when we try to communicate honestly we sacrifice kindness, and when we try...
Something that has been a live issue for me recently – both in my own life and in conversations with friends – is how we...
I was in The Metro newspaper this morning talking about making life-changing decisions. The piece was accompanied by this pic which I rather liked –...
This post discusses polarisation, a theme that is covered in more depth in my book The Psychology of Sex. The last couple of days I’ve been...
The inevitability of treating partners as things? Romance in Ruby Sparks (and why I like the ending)
Recently I got round to watching last year’s Ruby Sparks on DVD. I’d been looking forward to watching this film for some time because it...
An important idea that I’ve come across in various contexts is that of embracing uncertainty. I liked it so much that I ended each chapter...
I came across a great example this morning in a paper by my friend and colleague Trevor Butt which I thought could be very usefully...
Last week I gave a talk on self-help books to literature students at UEA and, thanks to the marvellous B. J. Epstein, I had the...
New Year is a time when we often consider resolving to do things differently in the year to come. However, for many reasons, making New...
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