In the last hour of his life just over a week ago, African-American Minneapolis resident George Floyd’s repeatedly pleaded “I can’t breathe … please stop.” He deferentially asked Derek Chauvin, the white officer with his knee on Floyd’s neck, to remove his knee, repeating, “Please, please, please.” As the world now knows, Chauvin didn’t listen. Generally, fanatics don’t listen—whether they are religious zealots, racists, sexists, […]
Read MoreAnthony Silard’s article “The Real Reason Behind the Mass Unrest” was published in Psychology Today. Find it here.
Read MoreAnthony Silard’s article was just published in Psychology Today. You can find it here.
Read MoreManaging your mind over media.
Read MoreAnthony 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.
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