Are Our Social Skills at Risk for Extinction?, By Carly Orenstein, Psy.D.

I don’t know about you, but I used to enjoy going out. I looked forward to having a Saturday night dinner with my husband and friends, a day of soccer games and plans with my teenagers, and vacations (remember vacations?). I thought I would miss it all when March turned into April, then December arrived, but the […]

The Psychology of Magic, By Dan DaSilva, Ph.D.

On a rare evening when there was no sports practice pick-up and no homework to supervise, I sat down to watch one of those ubiquitous talent contests on television. A magician was the next performer. I watched through the mundane banter and setup for his routine, the fluidity of his hand movements as he manipulated […]