Psychology

  If the state of Texas executes Duane Buck, it’ll be because he is black.  Well, mainly it will be because in 1995, he shot his ex-girlfriend, Debra Gardner, and her friend, Kenneth Butler, to death at Gardner’s Houston home, and also...

Q. I work with someone who just loves obsessing about petty details. As far as he can tell, the sky is falling, every detail will cause the end of the world, and every mistake may end a life. I find him exhausting. Is there anyone I can get him to stop...

Lynn A. Brooks, president of the board of directors at the Intensive Education Academy, Inc. has announced the election of two new Board members. Jessica L. Fish, former vice president of global marketing for Elizabeth Arden, Inc., graduated from the...

Dear Amy: My daughter had a child out of wedlock four years ago. My wife and I have supported them both emotionally and financially and by baby-sitting the child. Now my daughter is engaged to a very good guy. She wants to have a wedding that will...

Hoarding lecture   Randy O. Frost, a professor of psychology at Smith College in Massachusetts and an expert on hoarding, will talk on "Understanding Hoarding" from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 16, at Brook Lane Campus community room, 12318 Brook Lane...

Most guys pick up a guitar to meet girls and party. Zach DuBois has a business plan. “I tell people all I’m doing is running a small business,” the 24-year-old singer-songwriter says. In March, he released his first CD, “...

Psychologists called by the defense testified Friday that Mario McNeill exhibited bizarre behavior, believing in a spiritual energy he called Sophia and having an electromagnetic field connection with jurors. McNeill, the doctors concluded, is not at...

By Andrea Hopkins TORONTO, May 2 (Reuters) - It's looking like an unsettling spring in Canadian housing, a market that has proven far more even-keeled and less scary for investors in recent years than in the United States. In what is traditionally the...

Hesperia tennis coach Jim Taper and the Scorpions' No. 1 singles player Joey Adamiak went to watch the regular season finale between Serrano and Apple Valley on April 23. If Serrano took at least one match in the doubleheader, Hesperia would finish...

 More than 250 students will receive degrees during Northern State University’s spring commencement, exercises, which begin at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the NSU Barnett Center. ESPN sports journalist and best-selling author Buster Olney will deliver...

The transition from high school to college is not easy -- there are all forms of temptation and a list of reality checks that follow. Adjusting to schedules, teaching styles and paces of each class is enough of a challenge for any 18-year-old freshman....

We all know the face of stress: the clenched jaw, the furrowed brow, the intense stare. And, really, it's not a bad look. We all do some of our best work under pressure. Adrenaline and other stress hormones give us the kick start we need to meet deadlines...