Art Markman, PhD

The purpose of money is to provide a uniform method for valuing things.   It doesn’t matter whether I have a crisp new $1 bill in my pock...

When you want to motivate someone to do something, you tell them to Dream Big, and to Reach for the Stars.   That is, of course, importan...

The civil courts are one of the most humane systems society has invented.  We take property damage, pain, suffering, and lost wages that hav...

Much of your life is spent doing routine things.  On weekdays, you have a set of actions you take out of habit to wake up, get ready to leav...

As the parent of high school kids, I see the number of surveys that go to kids trying to determine their risky behavior.   They are frequ...

If you take even a quick look at the newspaper, you can see that there are massive public policy efforts aimed to curb smoking.   States ...

Psychological research on motivation has proposed a lot of strange theories.   Perhaps the strangest (to my mind) is Terror Management Th...