If You’re Given Three Wishes, Don’t Forget About Happiness
Success first, then happiness, we tell ourselves. But perhaps we’ve got it backwards.
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Searching For Suicide: Can Google Predict Suicide?
In graduate school, I had an engineering friend named Steve who proposed that he and I, a psychologist, team up to create a machine to predict the future.
New Year’s Resolutions Failed? Be Prepared to Leverage Other Fresh Starts
It is three months into the year 2015. Some of us who made a promise to exercise every day in 2015 may be struggling to exercise barely once a week.
To be or not to be? Should Obesity be a disease?
We know that names matter. So, it matters that the American Medical Association decided, in June of 2013, to name obesity a disease.
Can traffic-light labels and better shelf positions help people make healthier decisions?
Over the last three decades obesity rates have doubled for adults and tripled for children. Today, over 35% of adults and 17% of children are considered obese, with the percentage of obese adults expected to rise to 50% by 2030.