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Dealing With ISIS: A Developmental Psychologist’s Perspective

by Jeffrey Rubin, PhD

Welcome to From Insults to Respect. Toward the latter part of President Obama’s presidency, he laid out his approach for dealing with the ISIS situation. Although our new president has not said so, it looks like his approach is no different in any discernible manner that I can detect. There was, early in the Trump presidency, a chemical weapons attack by the Syrian military on its…

Dr. Jeffrey Rubin January 13, 2016 28 min read

RESPONDING TO CRITICISM: LESSONS FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES

If you have been following this blog, you know that lately we have been working on becoming masters at dealing with criticism. One important lesson that we have focused in on is that in designing our response to a particular criticism it is crucial that we figure out why the person is criticizing us. Let’s say, for example, that John, upon entering my home and…

Dr. Jeffrey Rubin October 13, 2012 7 min read