When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something. But the folks in my classes with the biggest ideas and the best publicity shots ready to grace the back covers of their best-selling novels are also usually the ones who aren’t holding any paper.