RWU Psychology

01/09/2019

Check this out! Time for a music minor?

12/22/2018

Happy Holidays and New Year to all Psych people from RWU!

12/10/2017

founder, Tarana Burke, will visit RWU on February 15, 2018. Her visit is sponsored by a number of university departments and organizations. I’m proud to say we are one of the sponsoring department. More details about her visit will be forthcoming.

Wishing you well during this hectic time of the year and the best of Holiday seasons.

08/10/2017

One of the professors in my dissertation committee was Christopher Peterson, one of the founders of the field of Positive Psychology. He was pretty much loved by all who knew him and he is missed (he died a few years ago). You've seen a quote from him in my emails:

“Happiness is a product of our pursuits, not necessarily the pursuit of happiness per se, but the pursuit of other things that make life worth living.”

Christopher Peterson (1950 – 2012), Psychologist, Teacher, Mentor.

Turns out, the Japanese actually have a word for the above...
Which leads me to challenge you to find what is your IKIGAI.

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170807-ikigai-a-japanese-concept-to-improve-work-and-life

With no direct English translation, it’s a term that embodies the idea of happiness in living. Yukari Mitsuhashi explains.

07/28/2017

Something to think about as the new semester approaches...

This is BRILLIANT!

07/19/2017

Some examples of great women from history doing great things. The only addition, the Mexican poet Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, who lived in the 1600s, was said to be incredibly beautiful and courted by many men. She responded to them by becoming a nun. Her poetry wasn't only erotic, but rather in it she condemned the double standards of the day and men's hypocrisy. In her most famous poem, she started:

"Foolish men who lay
Guilt on women, not seeing
You're the cause
Of the very thing you blame.

If you invite their disdain
With measureless desire
Why with they well behave
If you incite to ill

You fight their stubbornness
Then, weightily,
You say it was their lightened
When it was your guile.

In all your crazy shows
You act just like a child
Who plays the bogeyman
Of which he's then afraid...

http://www.factinate.com/facts/42-facts-women-made-history-2/6?utm_content=inf_10_3709_2&fact=1&utm_source=TSE&utm_campaign=tse&utm_medium=CPC&tse_id=INF_61494ba06b3d11e790011d41b85aaeb5

7. Red Blooded American Ida B. Wells was a brilliant American journalist, suffragist, and anti-lynching activist. When three of her friends were lynched in 1892, she investigated the murders and wrote about her findings her newspaper The Free Speech. As a result, her newspaper’s office was destroyed...

07/17/2017

Hope you are all having a great and restful, but fun, summer. We look forward to seeing you again in the Fall, which is a long time from now. A long time. There's a lot of summer left. It's really just begun. Really...

05/08/2017

Interesting advise...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/lifestyle/how-to-be-an-adult/?tid=sm_fb

The transition from college to the real world can be rocky. Here's some practical advice you didn't learn in school.

05/04/2017

Psi Chi induction 2017. Congrats to our new members!

04/03/2017

As the semester inches towards the end, some inspirational words:

"When you feel that everything is over
That everything in front of you is dark,
That all around you are leaving you...
It's time to leave the theatre, the movie is over."

01/22/2017

Yesterday, over 500,000 women (and a men, though not as many) made their voices heard in D.C., Boston, New York... Etc. In every state and in many, many countries. This is what feminism is about. Equality, and equity. There's no turning back the clock.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/17/us/womens-march.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0