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Is Psychology Today Biased Against Men and People of Color?
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Is Psychology Today Biased Against Men and People of Color?

[EDIT: I originally submitted this story to my column/blog in Psychology Today. My goal wasn't to cause problems, but to follow "sunshine is the best disinfectant" since everything in it is publicly available on the site. The piece didn't show up. As best I can tell it was rejected.] Why not show us on the cover? I like to feel included, don't you? I've written here for a few months. I wanted to learn more about my community. I looked up a few places Psychology Today represents itself: its About page, covers, and media kit. Psychology Today's About Page Psychology Today's About page says: About Psychology Today Psychology Today is devoted exclusively to everybody's favorite subject: Ourselves Sounds great! I would expect "Ourselves" to include…

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August 16, 2020
How Bill Gates and the 1% can help the environment
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How Bill Gates and the 1% can help the environment

I posted the following to my Psychology Today blog: Image courtesy Freepng.com An article today, Bill Gates Thinks That The 1% Should Foot The Bill To Combat Climate Change, said, "Bill Gates believes that private investors should foot the bill for increased spending on technologies to fight global climate change. He has pledged to commit $2 billion himself." Does something strike you as disingenuous? Don't Gates's yachts, jets, and mansions burn through fossil fuels more than nearly anyone in history? When one person's actions matter Before you say, "he's only one person. He could only infect a few people, what's that out of 7.7 billion?", imagine him donating to fight covid-19 while meeting large groups of people without a face mask, coughing a lot without…

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May 10, 2020
The project I assigned myself following up my posts on white men
Awareness / Models / Nonjudgment / Perception / Psychology Today

The project I assigned myself following up my posts on white men

Yesterday's post Update on automatic thoughts people connect with straight white men culminated with a couple questions I found intriguing: Imagine if your entire life, every time you said you suffered, people said, "actually that's an example of you causing others to suffer."How would that affect your life? and: Imagine every time you said you worked hard at something, people said, "actually that's an example of how easy your life is."How would that affect your life? My recent conversations revealed them. I've started thinking about them. No one I spoke to answered them. As best I can tell, answering them would take empathy, imagining yourself in other people's shoes, and putting yourself in the background. From my perspective, I would value hearing someone speculate on…

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February 22, 2020
Update on automatic thoughts people connect with straight white men
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Update on automatic thoughts people connect with straight white men

Last month I asked "What automatic thoughts come to you when you think of straight white men?". I also explored the topic with Psychology Today's Editor-at-Large, Hara Estroff Marano, in an audio recording for a piece there, White Men and Preconceived Notions. A white man Some updates. . . First, context. However obvious, I'll still say that the following is a personal account with all the biases of someone just talking to the people he came across in a month, not trying for a representative sample or to account for biases. My goal was to explore life, not publish in a peer-reviewed journal. Everyone seems to go through stages talking about race. First they seem to shy away from it. Then something changes, I believe…

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February 21, 2020
Psychology Today: White Men and Preconceived Notions
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Psychology Today: White Men and Preconceived Notions

Psychology Today's Editor at Large, Hara Estroff Marano, and I continue our conversations on challenging topics. Today we continue with white men and preconceived notions of us. We were talking about topics before hitting record, I started to describe the pattern that comes up a few minutes into this recording, she lit up in the way someone who has thought about something and has something to say about it does, so we picked stereotypes of white men. Here's the article. Here's the recording: https://youtu.be/HKjrnnOd-jc I think we both thought, "I hope we don't get fired," but also felt, "how can we learn if we don't speak?", so we bit the bullet and recorded. I haven't heard a conversation like it before. The number of threads…

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February 17, 2020
Sexism in magazine covers?
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Sexism in magazine covers?

People call for diversity and equality but where is the call for more men on the covers of Vogue or Elle? I don't see one. Vogue covers. See any men? Elle covers. See any men? Am I missing the call for equality? I hear it for representation on corporate boards, university departments, and STEM fields, but with these covers the ratio is 100:0. Vanity Fair looks egalitarian with a few token men. Are we not worth picturing? Vanity Fair covers. A few token men. You could say women buy these magazines. But people call for sexual equality in places like the boy scouts, which apparently has at least one all-female troop. More animals and smiley faces than men at Psychology Today Even magazines that don't…

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February 7, 2020
Psychology Today: The Environment: What Do One Person’s Actions Matter?
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Psychology Today: The Environment: What Do One Person’s Actions Matter?

I posted my second conversation with Psychology Today's Editor-at-Large, Hara Estroff Marano. This episode continues with the environment: What do one person's actions matter?How do you influence someone who disagrees, like a hard core Trump supporter? Click to the article for the episode notes. For now, I'll include the recording here since Psychology Today's software isn't showing it properly. https://youtu.be/gSek6yG2xXw Enjoy!

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February 6, 2020
Psychology Today: Food, Sustainability, and Joy
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Psychology Today: Food, Sustainability, and Joy

My podcast episode with Chris Schembra, 159: Chris Schembra: Expressing Gratitude, got heartfelt feedback from listeners. I wrote about Chris's influence on helping me grow my famous no-packaging vegetable stew dinners in my Psychology Today column. Check out my piece there, Food, Sustainability, and Joy: Food introduced the joy of sustainability to me. A food entrepreneur helped. Thanks to Chris for the conversation and inspiration that led to it. And the dinners.

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January 13, 2020
How Psychology Today improved overnight
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How Psychology Today improved overnight

Psychology Today improved overnight by hiring me! Today marked my first post. Here's a screen shot of my profile. My column is called Leadership and the Environment, subtitled What Everyone Gets Wrong and How to Get It Right. Appropriate to that title, my first post is the script to my second TEDx talk, posted almost the same time, titled What Everyone Gets Wrong About the Environment, just like my colum. Here's a screen shot of my first post. For some history, the title of this post refers to the title of my post announcing my starting to write for Inc., How Inc. Magazine improved overnight. So watch for my Psychology Today column. I plan to write about the leadership aspects of environmental action--the emotions, behavior,…

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November 8, 2019

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