Confidence Quickly Curdles Into Arrogance; Smarts Turn

Spending $1 For A Brand New House Would Feel Very, Very Good. Spending $1,000 For A Ham Sandwich Would Feel Very, Very Bad. Spending $19,000 For A Small Family Car Would Feel, Well, More Or Less Right. But As With Physical Pain, Fiscal Pain Can Depend On The Individual, And Everyone Has A Different Threshold.

Habitual Texters May Not Only Cheat Their Existing Relationships, They Can Also Limit Their Ability To Form Future Ones Since They Don't Get To Practice The Art Of Interpreting Nonverbal Visual Cues.

In Both Children And Adults, There Can Be A Hard-to-deny Link Between A Robust Sense Of Hope And Either Work Productivity Or Academic Achievement.

Since Narcissism Is Fueled By A Greater Need To Be Admired Than To Be Liked, Psychologists Might Use That Fact As A Therapeutic Lever - Stressing To Patients That Being Known As A Narcissist Will Actually Cause Them To Lose The Respect And Social Status They Crave.

The Death Of Anti-gay Hate Speech Is No Doubt Being Hastened By The Head-spinning Speed With Which Gays As A Group - To Say Nothing Of Gay Marriage - Are Becoming An Unremarkable And Even Quite Traditional Parts Of American Life.