February 2016

A while back, I had a conversation with some online friends about science communication.  And in that conversation, a friend brought up a problem there was with using “science communicator” as a broad term, as so many were doing.  I was pretty swayed by the conversation, and started promoting the term Science Advocate among friends as an alternative for most people. But I have also seen how there has been a struggle to fit everything under that niche, and how there was a lot of confusion in the process because of that.  I think that we need to get something like this breakdown as aRead More →

Not Just Any Emotion: Shame in Behavioral Science CrosshairsPsychologist Karen Horney viewed it with the intensity needed to call it a Tyranny.  The father of therapy through teaching rational thinking, Albert Ellis, zeroed in on shame as the source of a large amount of distress and mental health problems, denouncing the shame and even called it  “Musterbation”.  And it continues to be seen as problematic to this day, being described as the root behind most psychological problems, and perpetuating the problem it is trying to solve. I am keeping the links simple for easy reading, but even this opposing case notes that there is a reallyRead More →