A few years ago, I complained to a girl friend about how my then-boyfriend was getting on my nerves. I told her how we would be hanging out in his apartment on the weekend and I would ask for some “alone time” to read or go online. He would say okay, but couldn’t go for […]
In what is likely one of the most adorable psychological musings, a recent People magazine interview with a clinical and evolutionary psychologist from Harvard Medical School revealed that your dog is probably dreaming about you. While taking care to note that her answers were speculative (since it’s difficult to conduct comprehensive dream studies on animals […]
He seemed sweet at first. In fact, he had many sweet moments. But then there was the other stuff … Abusive behavior isn’t as simple as we, as a society, want it to be. We often think that the kinds of signs that tell you a man could be abusive are very obvious. We imagine […]
According to some old, bald, mustachioed man with a PhD writing for Psychology Today, it’s bad for dogs to hug them. This is based on what “Canine Corner” columnist Stanley Coren calls “new data,” but as far as I can tell, this data was compiled from his personal impressions of 250 photos of dogs being hugged by their […]
