Social 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. […]
Read MoreThe coronavirus is the second threat to our way of life in the past thirteen years to result in unprecedented social distancing. Let’s take a look at the first social-distancing threat, which appeared in 2007: the smartphone. First, the obvious needs stating: our phones are amazing. They offer some damn exciting options. This is why […]
Read MoreCheck out Anthony Silard’s new Psychology Today article on moving through loneliness during the pandemic.
Read MoreAs an educator and researcher of emotion and leadership, I’ve decided to apply an emotion lens to our fear of COVID-19 for two primary reasons. First, as anyone who saw Pixar’s Inside Out can tell you, fear is an emotion. In fact, it’s one of the five basic emotions (along with joy, anger, sadness and […]
Read MoreWe are in the midst of a global mental health crisis among teens and young adults. According to a Cigna study of over 10,000 American adults released in January, over three of every five Americans are currently lonely, the highest number in recorded history. Who are the loneliest in our society? In the US, it’s […]
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