Not sure where this came from originally, but I love it

This is great

Thanks to Vanessa Jarebu Irvin for sharing on Facebook.

That's interesting

Working mom guilt, be gone! Your kids fare better, study finds

Working moms are always fending off guilt. Are we spending enough time with our tots? Is day care screwing them up? Will they be complaining someday to a therapist about how mommy didn’t pay enough attention?

Scientists now say we can hang up the guilt. Our jobs, as it turns out, might be the best thing in the world for our kids – especially the girls.

A new study that tracked nearly 19,000 British children found that little girls with stay-at-home mothers were twice as likely to develop emotional or behavioral problems by age 5 as girls with working moms.

They're not quite sure why, yet, though.

Excellent opinion piece on the value of behavioural sciences

The Unexamined Society

It includes some interesting examples of research showing how scarcity affects psychology and also how people's perceptions--including about themselves--affect behaviour.

Okay, maybe I'm biased because I have a degree in sociology, which also borrows heavily from psychology and other social sciences. But I think there's real value in studying how we behave and how we can change self-destructive behaviours or societal problems through first understanding why people and groups act the way they do.