One of the most interesting aspects of my work is that I constantly see people responding to hurt. It is interesting to me that the majority of people always assign maliciousness to an action by someone else. On the other hand, people usually readily see the self-protective nature of their own actions. Social psychologists call [...]

My daughter was recently in her school’s performance of Fiddler On The Roof. She was one of the daughters. If you don’t know the story, it focuses on the changing culture of marriage, from one where the marriage is arrainged by family and community to one based on mutual attraction. In one of the songs, [...]