Personality Blog

Would you like to makes tons of money, drive a low slung sports car and visit exotic locations? Perhaps your key to the good life is writing mystery stories. The best writers are unlikely to need help from the President’s stimulus package. A best selling author can make millions–just ask Rowling. I believe she owns Scotland. You may very well have what it takes to run with the big dogs of murder–Dean Koontz, Agatha Christie, Patricia Cornwell, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Anne …

This is a scary time for our country, oops, let me change that – this is a scary time for our planet. Past economic mistakes are coming back to bite us and we are trying to stay afloat until the cycle ends. If you know financial history you are probably less concerned. Yes, times are tough, but these cycles happen every few years and they cycle back out again. Hang tough, folks!

For now, we are all trying to do what we can to survive the present. In fact, we are …

Researchers enthusiastically debate the etiology of phobias. Behaviorists point fervently to a pairing of a neutral stimulus and a frightening stimulus as the raison d’être of a phobic reaction. For example, an experiment performed in the experimental dark ages of the 1920’s paired a little fuzzy rabbit with a frightening noise. The subject was a young child, little Albert. He exhibited no fear of the rabbit until the loud noise was repeatedly paired with the animal. He learned to fear the rabbit, even when it was …

Narcissists are found at all economic levels and in many and diverse careers. Naturally, politics, acting, recording, higher education and religion have a ready audience to admire and pamper them. Though, physicians, teachers, attorneys and executives are not without their Narcissists, in fact, these careers could lure an individual with an overachieving ego. Narcissists can have a wonderful façade, much like the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz. He was just a lonely little man behind a curtain …