Anthony Silard’s article “The Personal Test of the Pandemic: Thinking for Ourselves” was published in Psychology Today. You can read the article here.
Read MoreBeware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. — George Bernard Shaw A few days ago, I made a radical, life-changing decision. To move? No. To put our kids in another school? Not at all. To go on a trip? If only. I decided to check the news about the pandemic at most once every […]
Read MoreAnthony Silard’s article “How to Survive the Pandemic without Becoming a “Zoombie” was published in Psychology Today. You can read it here.
Read MoreSocial distancing will hopefully come to an end in the not-too-distant future. Why? Because we need each other. We are social animals that, as social psychologists Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary document, need to belong to social groups to survive and thrive. The global recommendations of social distancing seem necessary; yet we must understand the social implications. The Unprecedented […]
Read MoreAnthony Silard’s article “Transforming Loneliness” was published in Psychology Today. You can read the article here.
Read MoreAnthony Silard was published in The Orlando Sentinel. You can read the article here.
Read MoreIn the 2013 action film World War Z, Brad Pitt travels the world attempting to derail a zombie pandemic. Like many movies of yesteryear, there are zombies, with one slight change: they move fast as opposed to slow. Like the standard zombies, they are not very happy with their lot, walk around aimlessly, seem to […]
Read MoreA good friend of mine who is a professor at the Universitá del Piemonte 75 km west of Milan wrote to me recently about her experience with the nationwide quarantine in Italy: My family, friends, colleagues and I are all well but things are indeed quite difficult here, especially from a psychological point of view. […]
Read MoreOne of my former clients was a basketball coach for over twenty years before he became the executive director of one of the largest youth organizations in Washington D.C. Managing a nonprofit with a multi-million-dollar budget without prior management experience is not easy. Each month in our coaching sessions, I listened to Kevin’s horror stories. […]
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