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In The Aftermath Of The Fort Hood Mass Shooting, A troubling Message

By Ugo Uche on November 7, 2009 in Promoting Empathy With Your Teen

There is a ubiquitous message we send to youths, over the ownership and use of guns in our society. That message is an eye for an eye.

MAJ. NIDAL MALIK HASAN AT FORT HOOD

By Ken Eisold, PhD on November 7, 2009 in Hidden Motives

At this point, of course, we know very little, but that doesn't prevent many commentators from speculating, and some from jumping to conclusions
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Prior convictions

By Ilan Shrira on November 7, 2009 in The Narcissus in All of Us

At what point do our beliefs begin to harden and become so resistant to change? Read More

In the wake of Fort Hood: Prejudice is not the answer

By Clay Routledge, Ph.D. on November 7, 2009 in Death Love Sex Magic

The recent shooting of American soldiers (on American soil) by a Muslim American military psychiatrist at Fort Hood threatens to reignite tensions between Muslim American and non-Muslim American cultural groups. Read More

Procrastination

What is time abundance?

By Christine Louise Hohlbaum on November 7, 2009 in The Power of Slow

Have you ever noticed how we talk about time? We often address it like a fierce competitor we have to beat to the finish line. We crunch it, beat it, and race against it. But I wonder what would happen if we were to treat time as a partner, as a friend, as the Siamese twin it was meant to be? Read More

Addiction

Tragedy at Fort Hood: Could It Have Been Stopped?

By Harold C. Urschel, III, M.D. on November 7, 2009 in Revolutionary Recovery: Healing the Addicted Brain

When we see a senseless tragedy, like the recent shootings at Fort Hood, we develop feelings of anger and frustration, and we start to look for clues of how this event could have been prevented. The first step is to change the US military's addiction treatment philosophy. It is clear that the military is not treating alcohol and drug addiction effectively. They are not integrating the latest science-based treatments into their treatment programs to help our service men and women. It is necessary that we work to change this immediately in order to prevent another future tragedy, and to help our men and women of the military receive the best possible care that they so deserve. Read More

Aging

Mom Flies Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

By Eliezer Sobel on November 7, 2009 in The 99th Monkey

Several weeks ago my mother, in her eighth or ninth year of Alzheimer’s Disease, and 63rd year of marriage, began wielding knives and trying to stab people, verbally threatening to kill my father, throwing dangerous glass objects and screaming bloody murder at her own image in the mirror—“I DON’T WANT YOU HERE, GET OUT!!!” My brother and I finally intervened and had her temporarily hospitalized in a psychiatric ward, hoping we could buy more time for her at home through stabilizing her on the right meds, and getting Dad more help. Read More

Gender

Novel Deftly Explores the Sexual Mechanisms Men Use to Cope With Romantic Loss

By Seth Meyers, Ph.D. on November 7, 2009 in Insight Is 20/20

On occasion, after I read a book, I feel compelled to write about it. This happened after I read the new novel "This Is Where I Leave You," by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Tropper. What a punch this novel packs, replete with betrayal, death, and male existential crises. Read More

Child Development

Homelessness, Parenting, and Attachment

By Jean Mercer, Ph.D. on November 7, 2009 in Child Myths

Most of us have seen a pitiful sight, either in photographs or in reality: a homeless mother and one or more young children, sitting in a doorway, wrapped in blankets against the cold, with their few possessions next to them in a shopping cart. Read More

Law and Crime

Fort Hood Fallout

By Sam Sommers on November 7, 2009 in Science Of Small Talk

Psychologists call it illusory correlation. The idea is that when we think about others, we tend to overestimate the association between groups and actions that are distinctive. It's one of the ways in which societal stereotypes are perpetuated and endure over time. And it's exactly what has many an American Muslim concerned in the wake of this week's tragic shooting spree at the Fort Hood Army base... Read More

Cognition

Two Different Worlds We Live In - The Hasan Murders

By Stanton Peele on November 7, 2009 in Addiction in Society

Divided responses to the Fort Hood Killings illurate how reality follows perception, and how the United States is hopelessly split. Read More

Happiness

Does Obama know how we see him?

By Simine Vazire, Ph.D. on November 7, 2009 in Know Thyself

We don't like people who think they're more popular than they really are. Read More

Personality

Kellerman reply to Dr. Vee on Fort Hood violence

By Henry Kellerman, Ph.D. on November 7, 2009 in Thinking Matters

Yes, this is a good comment. I've referred to it directly in my blog entry
in analyzing the issue of how anger and ideology is linked to acting-out and
violence, to wit: "If the strength of the anger is stronger than the strength
of the resilience of the person, then the anger is likely to be acted out. Read More

Politics

America Eats its Young: First and Ten at Fort Hood

By Christopher Ryan on November 7, 2009 in Sex at Dawn

America's self-image is founded on denial.

We see ourselves as a freedom-loving nation, but no country on Earth has more of its people in cages than we do.

Americans see themselves as defending peace in the world, but no country is more war-like. Read More

Child Development

'Accents' in the womb? A brief note

By Charles Fernyhough on November 7, 2009 in Dad The Observer

Making the news this week have been some findings that newborn babies imitate aspects of the 'accents' of their parents' language. Read More

Health

Leadership & Self Mastery: Body and life changes after attending Strozzi Institute leadership course

By Susan Harrow on November 7, 2009 in The Body Blog

I wanted to bring you current about how I'm living up to the promises Imade to myself after completing the Leadership in Action 1 course at the Strozzi Institute, Center for Leadership and Mastery Read More

Stress

Could fantasy have prevented the Fort Hood slayings?

By Ethan Gilsdorf on November 6, 2009 in Geek Pride

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the accused shooter, was said to have expressed some anger about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Too bad he did not find the proper venue to express that anger. Had Nidal Malik Hasan played a first-person shooter game in an imaginary realm, perhaps he would not have felt compelled to create his own first-person shooter game in the real world. Read More

Stress

How to Survive an Active Shooter Incident such as Fort Hood

By Tracy Ertl on November 6, 2009 in Riding the Alligator

Get out if you can. Hide safely. Call 911. Time is critical.

I teach my public safety students how to come out with the most people alive, both citizens and responders, as a national instructor with APCO International. Read More

Law and Crime

Why violence?

By Carl Pickhardt, Ph.D. on November 6, 2009 in Surviving (Your Child's) Adolescence

We bloggers for Psychology Today were asked to write a something in the wake of the Ft. Hood shootings, perhaps in hopes our individual offerings might add a small piece to the puzzle of understanding the profound complexity of social violence. Here is what came to my mind. Read More

Evolutionary Psychology

Science of Speed Dating - Part IV

By Daniel R. Hawes on November 6, 2009 in Evolved Primate

Ask men and women what they look for in a partner, and they will tell you that they are basically looking for someone who matches well with them in terms of wealth and status, family commitment, attractiveness, health and of course general physical appearance. Take a closer look at who these same men and women end up actually pursuing as potential partners, however, and a quite different story ensues... Read More

Bloggers


	Ugo Uche is a Licensed Professional Counselor who specializes in adolescents and young adults.
	Ken Eisold is a psychoanalyst and organizational consultant whose book about the unconscious is coming out in January, What You Don't Know You Know.
	Ilan Shrira is a visiting professor of social psychology at the University of Florida.
	Clay Routledge is an assistant professor of Psychology at North Dakota State University.
	Christine Louise Hohlbaum is the author of The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World.
	Addiction psychiatrist Harold Urschel brings science-based addiction treatments to the general public.
	Eliezer Sobel is an author, musician, and retreat leader.
	Seth Meyers is a clinical psychologist with the L.A. County Department of Mental Health.
	Jean Mercer is a developmental psychologist with a special interest in parent-infant relationships.
	Sam Sommers, Ph.D., is a social psychologist at Tufts University.
	Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D., has been researching and treating addiction since he wrote Love and Addiction (1975). He also wrote 7 Tools to Beat Addiction.
	Simine Vazire is an assistant professor of psychology at Washington University in St. Louis and the director of the Personality and Self-Knowledge lab.
	Henry Kellerman, Ph.D., psychologist/psychoanalyst/practitioner, is the author/editor of more than 20 books.
	Christopher Ryan, Ph.D. is co-author of Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (HarperCollins 2010).
	Developmental psychologist Charles Fernyhough is the author of A Thousand Days of Wonder: A Scientist's Chronicle of his Daughter's Developing Mind.
	Writer Susan Harrow's latest book is Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul.
	Ethan Gilsdorf is a journalist, teacher, poet, geek and the author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks.
	Tracy Ertl is a 911 dispatcher in Green Bay, an adjunct instructor in active shooter incidents at the APCO Institute, and the publisher of a book imprint, Title Town Publishing.
	Carl Pickhardt, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Austin, Texas. His most recent books are: The Connected Father, The Future of Your Only Child, and Stop Screaming. carlpickhardt.com
	Daniel R. Hawes is a social psychologist stuck in an applied economists body.

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