Psychology

Marion Cotillard wears Dior at Cannes 2013 'Blood Ties' premiere

2013-05-21 08:11:00

Marion Cotillard wore a strapless Dior gown with eye-catching color blocks of blue, yellow, black and pink on a white background to the Cannes Film Festival premiere of "Blood Ties" on Monday. The dress was shown Saturday in Monaco as part of Dior's...

Hedda Bolgar dies at 103; renowned psychoanalyst

2013-05-18 14:04:00

Hedda Bolgar, a psychologist old enough to have attended Sigmund Freud's lectures in Vienna but youthful enough to have treated patients until just a few weeks ago, has died. She was 103. Her mind was sharp, her zest for work keen, and her social...

Accepting this 'Great Gatsby' on its own terms

2013-05-14 06:00:00

To judge by some of the reviews of the new film adaptation of "The Great Gatsby," you'd think Australian director Baz Luhrmann would be facing extradition for his crime against an American classic. But I have a message for all those self-appointed...

Steve Lopez: She worked past age 100, inspired many more

2013-05-15 17:42:00

In 40 years of interviews as a journalist, I've never met anyone quite like Hedda Bolgar. The pioneering psychoanalyst, who�attended lectures by�Sigmund Freud as a young woman and fled�Vienna for the United States�when�the Third Reich�entered Austria,...

Dr. Joyce Brothers, famed TV psychologist, dies at 85

2013-05-13 15:56:00

Dr. Joyce Brothers, a psychologist who became a pop-culture fixture after she turned to radio and television in the late 1950s to tend to the nation’s psyche, has died. She was 85. Brothers died Monday in New York City, publicist Sanford Brokaw...

Dr. Joyce Brothers dies at 85; popular TV psychologist

2013-05-13 20:12:00

Fame was never her intent, Dr. Joyce Brothers often said. She was not yet 30, new to stay-at-home motherhood and struggling to help her husband stretch his pay as a medical resident when she came up with an ambitious plan: Transform herself into a...

James Turrell shapes perceptions

2013-05-11 08:00:00

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Flying a couple of thousand feet above a volcanic field in Arizona near the Painted Desert, it's fairly easy to spot the extinct volcano known as the Roden Crater. It stands alone in the field, apart from hundreds of other...

Of course you're stressed. Just look at you.

2013-04-27 00:00:00

We all know the face of stress: the clenched jaw, the furrowed brow, the intense stare. And, really, it's not a bad look. We all do some of our best work under pressure. Adrenaline and other stress hormones give us the kick start we need to meet deadlines...

Ways to back away from the stress

2013-04-27 00:00:00

You can't avoid stress completely, but you can keep it from wearing you down. A positive attitude, if you can muster it, is the strongest shield against stress, says Stefan Hofmann, professor of psychology at Boston University. He urges optimism instead...

Bertie Carvel gives his all as 'Matilda's' demonic Miss Trunchbull

2013-04-28 07:00:00

NEW YORK — Miss Agatha Trunchbull, headmistress of Crunchem Hall school, hates pigtails. They're good only to serve as handles by which she can toss a rebellious child into the air — a feat this one-time Olympic hammer-throwing champion...

Gun legislation failure dismays survivor of Texas mass shooting

2013-04-21 00:00:00

Irma Garcia pulled back her sweater to show me where the bullet entered her shoulder and spun her around. It then torpedoed through her body and exited near the middle of her back. "I still have problems with it," she said, standing to show me how the...

Anxiety? Existential crisis? David Lynch film? Take a Tylenol

2013-04-18 12:26:00

Are you suffering from an existential crisis? Take two Tylenol and call me in the morning. New research suggests that acetaminophen, the main ingredient in Tylenol, may be able to alleviate the�pain of an existential crisis in the same way it alleviates...

The San Diego State University-Imperial Valley campus Psychology Club poses with the first recipient of its $200 book scholarship, Rudy Mercado.

2013-01-29 23:05:00

Mabel Menard has been appointed college chair for the College of Social Science at the Chicago campus of University of Phoenix. She will oversee program quality and integrity, faculty management and student performance and success.

2012-12-26 09:07:00

(UWM) where she was associate vice chancellor, interim dean for the School of Continuing Education and professor of educational psychology.

2012-11-18 13:54:00