Got a kid with anger issues? What to do, what to do? Step one: Look in the mirror. You won’t see your DNA in there, but you might remember that you, too, have a bit of a temper. Social aggression arises from a combination of low self-control, and low people-pleasing, or agreeability. Both are normal [...]
How might your personality impact your genetic legacy? Which personality types have the most children? As we’re finding more and more, that depends on your sex. Researchers went to Senegal to find a culture that has lots of babies. They they asked parents to take a personality test. When they combined the two sets of [...]
I’ve often wondered how much our face influences our personality. If you’re born with a natural frown and squinty eyes, does every stranger treat you like a grump, gradually turning you against the world? Was Christopher Columbus a victim of his own face? Just wondering. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d951′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
So, I’m getting chopperated tomorrow. Out with the degraded bone, in with the surgical grade titanium. I had ZERO anxiety about this until today. Now my amygdala, that damnable lima bean deep between the ears, is suddenly trying to protect me. “Infection!” it’s shouting. “You’ll get staph, and E. coli, you’ll get rabies! You could [...]
Just the quickest mouse update, since I may have left the impression the world could soon contain one mouse less. Mitzi, for the record, has made what appears to be a full recovery. From the start I thought it sounded like a cold (I’m not a mouse doctor, but I have had colds…) [...]
No two mice have ever had more divergent personalities than the two whose tails the PetCo employee grabbed for me. Itsy is a very nice mouse, who will already sit in my hand. But Bitsy, who at first seemed merely energetic, is proving to be a very anxious animal. When my stepson and I were [...]
I’m really excited about getting me some mice. This book I’m supposed to be writing, THE MOUSE & ME: How Nature Builds a Personality, is at that really sticky stage, that stage where I have to, uh, write it. The research is all really easy and fun and it directs itself — one fascinating [...]
