Follow me as I journey across the world to converse with influential Psychologists
It was a tremendous pleasure visiting some of the fantastic psychologists in Australia and New Zealand, and spending time in some beautiful areas down under. By both design and serendipity we enjoyed a warm summer from late January until February, while my friends on the eastern parts of the United States braved a very cold … Continue reading Photo Journey: Melbourne
Paraphrasing from Dr. Tony Jorm, I'll make a prediction. You know someone who is suffering from a mental illness. Each year close to 20% of adults will experience a mental health issue that might include anxiety, a drug problem, clinical depression, an eating disorder, schizophrenia, dementia -- and quite possibly more than one. Despite the widespread … Continue reading Dr. Anthony Jorm and a Quest for Global Literacy with Mental Health
Really good decisions tend to "good" because they are the summative outcome of multiple determining factors. Hence when considering what to do for a sabbatical project, I tried to craft something that would incorporate multiple interests and that weigh the real and probabilistic consequences of those choices to determine the best approach. Having said that, … Continue reading Side Note: Australia and New Zealand Highlights
Dr. Max Coltheart has drawn together people and ideas to form an understanding of thought and belief systems. He has done so with studies of visual perception, speech and language processes, computational modeling, clinical patients and their delusions, and a range of other fascinating phenomena. While Dr. Coltheart is Australian, his career has taken him … Continue reading The Polythematic Approach of Dr. Max Coltheart
As a young man, Dr. Joe Forgas risked his life and liberty to travel from soviet-controlled Hungary to Australia. In doing so, he eventually forged a career that spanned the social and cognitive domains in Psychology, he became an authority on how affect influences decision-making, and he brought an unique voice and influential perspective to … Continue reading An Unobtrusive Conversation with Dr. Joe Forgas
In this Journey to Psychology we have now traveled about 7,000 miles/11,000 kilometres in the United States and Canada, another 7,000mi/11,000km to get to Sydney, Australia, and then another 1300mi/2200km to get to Aukland NZ with an additional 150 mi/250km north from Aukland towards Whangarei Falls (pronounced Fang-err-ai). All told, our personal odometer for this … Continue reading Side note: Life on the other side of the road in New Zealand
Dr. Richard Bryant is the one to call when you need to understand the impact of a soul-taxing, high-stress, life-on-the-line kind of situation. He's gone on the front line of wildfires with the men and women fighting it, he's worked with emergency medical teams, he's met with refugees at camps and spoken with them as … Continue reading Dr. Richard Bryant Gets it Done
Visiting Sydney and speaking with influential Psychologists at University of New South Wales and Macquarie University was a really incredible experience. Here are some of the images from that visit: The university of New South Wales campus. It is a beautiful, modern, tree-lined area that, even during the New Year's break, was fairly active. I … Continue reading Photo Journey: Sydney
I've been reading, preparing, and engrossing myself in the works of three Sydney-based researchers: Drs. Richard Bryant (UNSW), Max Coltheart (Macquarie), and Joe Forgas (UNSW). In various ways each has developed scholarship demonstrating how our thoughts and the generation of those thoughts are affected by our emotions. Psychology has some history regarding these topics. Or, … Continue reading Psychology: Thinking Small or Big?
Scalable, accessible, affordable interventions define the aims of Dr. Allison Harvey's research with mental illness. She is a professor at the University of California -- Berkeley, the Director of the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic, and an award-winning scholar who is partnering with community clinics across northern California to work towards the realization … Continue reading Running Down a Dream with Dr. Allison Harvey
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