Hugging: If and when

Hugging used to be reserved for romantic partners and close family members. But now, in some circles, the hug has replaced the handshake.
What are today’s rules: When to hug? How? What if you’re not a hugger? I address these questions in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

We're All Automatic LIars

I saw comedian Tom Devenport at the Napa Valley’s Lucky Penny Community Arts Center. He closed with a bit that cut close to many of our bones. We lie and get lied to so often—especially in an election year--that we don’t even register common lies as lies.

Sure, a white lie for politeness isn't a mortal sin but when fibs fall so trippingly from our tongues that we don’t even recognize them as fibs, it suggests that maybe we could all use a little consciousness raising. In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I list about 30 of our automatic lies.