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• Skills & Trainings

• Pure Scientific Articles

• Provoked Podcast Episodes + Monthly Zoom Conversations

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📝 Personal Articles:

• The Most Inappropriate Movie in the World

• For College Bound Kids and Their Parents: A Masterclass on Abandonment Issues

• The Tender Solitude of Parenthood: A Love Letter to Guilt-Free, Kid-Free Moments

• How Did I Read 49 Books, Write 144 Articles, Work on a Book, Run a Research Laboratory, and Raise 3 Daughters in a Year?

• My 2024 Absolute Freaking Best Reading Recommendations

• Why I Chose to Work At George Mason University Instead of Harvard

• The Beauty and Terror of Dating in Mid-Life

• Horror Movies that Ruin Childhood, Hot Dogs, Overbearing Grandmothers, and Shoddy Sleep Research

• How People React to My Sexual Assault

• 6 Lessons from Working in a Pornography Store at Age 13

• My Experience on the Dr. Phil Show

• When Your Child Makes a Horrific Accusation - About You

• The Music Coolness Spiral of Death + 40 Big Predictors of Trust

• What It's Like to Be Trolled for 10 Years: With Science and Suggestions for How to Be Less of an Asshole Online

• Results from 24 Years Teaching Psychology X: What Transpired During My Spring 2024 - Ask Me Anything Class

• What Would You Do If This Happened in a Graduate School Interview?

• When You Are Blacklisted Because of A (Necessary) Act of Defiance

• Terrible Speed Dating Experiences and The Unholy Laws of Attraction

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🔩 Skills & Trainings:

• A Science-Backed Guide to Helping Youth and Adults with Synesthesia

• How Do You Get Kids to Be More Curious???

• Kickball, First Kisses, and Songs That You Played in the Car 751 Times (A Killer Nostalgia Exercise)

• The woman who outsmarted the IQ test

• How to Make Friends Like a 9-Year-Old

• In Defense of Opposite‑Sex Friendships: Don’t Give Up Half the World as Friends

• Does He Return the Shopping Cart? Self-Generated Character Tests

• Could Your Kid Survive NYC With One Dollar? Here’s How to Raise One Who Can.

• I Raise My Kids to Be Psychologically Powerful Negotiators (Here's How You Can Too)

• The Fear of Meaninglessness: Why We Want Credit for Good Deeds

• Why People Believe Weird Things - And What Do Yours Say About You

• Everyone's Busy Copying—Here's How to Make Something Original: Creativity and creative living for those who don't want to wait for muses.

• A Redefinition of Self-Actualization

• 7 Savage Moves for Toppling Government Tyranny and Reclaiming Power

• 5 Types of Annoying Conversation Partners - And How To Master Them: Part of a Conversational Masterclass Series

• Why You Should Worry About AI and Robots as Therapists

• Everything You Wanted to Know About Dreams (Interpreting Dream Interpretation)

• What's A Meaningful Life? Uncover 9 Insights to Measure Your Own

• Be Irresistible in Your Next Conversation: How Do You Open Doors to Deeper Talk?

• Boost Your Social Status Now with the 15 Best Strategies

• Track These 10 Unusual Indicators That Life Is Good

• The Secret Guide for How to Get Any Drug You Want from a Family Medicine Doctor

• The Quickest Way to Reduce The Impact of Social Anxiety

• 12 Shortcuts to Building Life Purpose

• A Shortcut to Wisdom: Plus Thoughts On Psychological Androgyny

• The Story of the Most Effective Nazi Interviewer: Do Not Read This Article

• 15 Creativity Myths, Led Zeppelin, and Book Writing Tips

• The Evolution of Purpose Research, the Black Sheep Effect, and a Curiosity Workshop Demonstration

• Avoiding, Accepting, and Harnessing Pain: Turning Stoicism into Scientific Tools and Strategies

• The Unfortunate Side Effects of Being a Curious Person: Plus a new teaching/workshop exercise to illustrate these discoveries

• A Cheat Sheet for Fixing Broken Systems - Politics, Education, Law, Work, Relationships

• Do You Have Good or Great Friendships? Rate Them on the New, Big Three Dimensions

• What Kurt Vonnegut Taught Me About Mental Restoration

• Happiness Measures That Suck + A Killer Exercise

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🧪 Pure Scientific Articles:

• New research on The Failure Gap

• What Well-Being Interventions Actually Work?

• Neuroscience is the Wrong Approach

• A Decade-Old Curiosity and Intellect Framework Everyone Ignored

• Why You’re Following Rules and How It’s Costing You

• Why It Sucks When Your Neighbor Wins the Lottery

• The Relationship Obstacle Course and Undateables

• Why We Laugh at Inappropriate Humor: A R-Rated Psychology Post

• Why Do You Get that Sudden, Cringeworthy Feeling - The Ick?

• Things You Need to Know About Lying and (False) Confessions

• (Almost) Everything You Need to Know About How Men and Women Differ in Romantic Relationships

• What Dr. Daniel Kahneman Taught Us About Happiness

• Mind-Blowing Insights: My Top 10 Psychology Findings Nobody Is Mentioning This Year

• Wacky "Never Have I Ever" Questions and Monkeys Who Write Sonnets

• 9 Examples of How Animal Abilities Surpass Humans

• Does Mindfulness Really Impact Prejudice? Big Results + a New 3-Dimensional Model

• Flippant Claims of Trauma + Silver Linings in Psychological Disorders

• What Do People REALLY Want In Romantic Partners?

• The Evidence on Spanking Children

• Harnessing The Dark Side of Your Personality

• The Science of Storytelling: Plus a New Demand-Capacity Model of Curiosity

• Rethinking Social Anxiety, Curiosity, and Purpose in Life: Major Scientific Influences that Have Yet To Catch On

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📅 Provoked Podcast Episodes + Community AMAs

• The Science of Dating Better and Attaining a Satisfying Romantic Life with Paul Eastwick

• What Happens When We Share Taboo Secrets with Leslie John (get access to The Confession Quiz!)

• Escape Either or Thinking and Embrace Paradoxes with Wendy K Smith

• Discussing Defiance, Deficits in Social Courage, and Evil Doers with Dr. Sunita Sah

• Japanese Plumbers, Scientists in the Epstein Files, and Aristotle’s Virtues

• Relationship Advice in the Dating, Friendship, Parenting, and Romantic Realms with Yael Schonbrun

• How to Feel Loved, Happiness Research, & More with Sonja Lyubomirsky

• Most Well-Being Models Fail to Fit Women’s Lives - Here are the Telling Data... with Corinne Low

• Being Spontaneous in Conversations, The Holding Space for Creativity, + How Change Emerges from Dissatisfaction with Colin M. Fisher

• Deep Misunderstandings of Happiness + Romantic Relationships

• Social Status Cannot Be Satisfied (Unlike the Pursuit of Power) with Will Storr

• The Psychology of Mind Viruses, Misinformation, + Problems at Colleges with Matthew Facciani

• Healthy relationships, narcissism, and the psychology of evil - Video+transcript of a conversation with Nathalie Martinek PhD

• Problems with Asking for Access to Your Partner's Phone, Fleeting Physical Attraction + Unhinged Conversations

• Self-Actualization Mishaps, Snowplow Parents, & Banned Books

• Cults, Legacies, Book Purges, Problematic Models of Happiness and Strengths

• Troll Social Status Games, AI Therapy, and Authors Who Forget Blue Collar Examples

• Self-Actualization Mishaps, Snowplow Parents, & Banned Books

• Strange Expressions of Love, Adult Male Friendships, Sex Differences in Life Longevity Obsessions, and the Invisible Effort Problem

• My Latest Stalker, Strange Variants of Narcissism, Regret and Pride in the Classroom, and Meaningful Work Models: And the last Ask Me Anything Video Recording

• Lessons from My Best Interview on "Rethinking Curiosity"

• Openness to Experience, Mercy for Campus Protestors, Purpose Partners, & Olympic Controversies

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Todd

Todd B. Kashdan is the author of several books including The Upside of Your Dark Side (Penguin) and The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively (Avery/Penguin) and Professor of Psychology and Founder of The Well-Being Laboratory at George Mason University.