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October 2012

October 31, 2012
What ideas or images come to your mind when you hear the word modesty? Until...
October 29, 2012
While the third and final presidential debate focused on foreign policy, it was notable that...
October 28, 2012
A month ago, the economist Richard Easterlin published an op-ed in the New York Times...
October 24, 2012
Recently, while reading Andrew Sayer’s book “Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and...
October 22, 2012
A friend passed along this article from the Wall Street Journal, about the shrinking gap...
October 22, 2012
Perhaps it's my imagination, but "fact checking" this election season seems to have reached a...
October 20, 2012
                This is the last entry of my series based on my latest book entitled...
October 19, 2012
In a recent report by the Pew Hispanic Center, we had some new statistics available...
October 18, 2012
Yet another interesting map from the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies. This gets...
October 16, 2012
When, as a 7th grader, I wrote a speech based on Martin Seligman’s theory of learned...
October 15, 2012
Recently I gave a talk at a Christian college about the contemporary mating market, and...
October 13, 2012
What can we do to make ourselves happy? A lot of talk (and research) about...
October 12, 2012
In this post I highlight a couple of books I have been reading (which I...
October 11, 2012
Protestantism, and its decline, has been in the news a lot this week with a...
October 10, 2012
Yesterday  I sat down in my favorite spot at home and surrounded myself with books...
October 08, 2012
I was in the room several years ago when discussions with students of sexual behavior,...
October 06, 2012
This is the third entry of my series based on my latest book entitled What...
October 05, 2012
I received a news alert from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life where...
October 04, 2012
Cognitive heuristics are mental shortcuts--rules of thumbs--that we use to make judgments about ourselves and...
October 03, 2012
The New York Times recently reported on a study conducted by researchers at Yale in...
October 02, 2012
In the last two years, I’ve been introduced to the culture of American Girls.  Living...
October 01, 2012
This isn't much of a blog post, but I thought I'd note here that I've...
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