A few months ago, I wrote about slighting – about why human beings are so vulnerable to feeling disrespected, and how perceived disrespect can cause severe psychological pain and even lead to violence ...

I would like to enlist the help of Psychology Today readers with some research I'm doing at my university. This is on the subject of ‘self-sufficiency’, in a psychological sense. This research partly ...

What is self-sufficiency? It is certainly not a position of nil risk, as some assume, as that would mean passing the risk to someone else. It is surely equally unrealistic to hold more assets than an ...