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09Feb2022

Training psychologists: are we selecting the best?

  • By Ian Bradley
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It’s letter-writing season for a lot of university professors.  Although actual letter-writing seems like an all but forgotten activity in this email universe, writing letters of reference for undergraduates aspiring to enter doctoral programs.  In my field of clinical psychology, is serious business from December until March.  I acquiesce to most requests but with a
29Aug2021

Psychological Aspects of Persuasion

  • By Ian Bradley
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So many of our actions involve persuasion, be it bargaining for new house, convincing a voter, or more frequently, in my game, getting someone to change. Persuasion is simply a ubiquitous part of human nature.   “All governments –indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act – is founded on compromise.
24Feb2021

Procrastination: why it doesn’t work.

  • By Ian Bradley
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People who come to my office to complain about procrastination invariably get it wrong.   The problem is not the 11th hour mad dash to pull an all-nighter to finish the report, nor is it the lost opportunity cost that would have accrued if adequate time and resources had been devoted to the task. It’s not
29Jan2021

Ten Tips to Conquer Workplace Problems

  • By Ian Bradley
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Problems in business are the norm; however, accepted ways to solving those problems might be less obvious. I have assembled a 10-tip guide that follows a timeline from conceptualization of the problem to the ultimate presentation of a possible solution. I hope that you find the material helpful.   Tip 1 Characterizing the Problem:   Starting
08Jul2020

Covid: my new sport?

  • By Ian Bradley
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I’m not sure exactly when it began, or more importantly, when it became an entrenched habit. But, for the last months, I’ve had a regular routine of looking at the daily stats concerning the pandemic.          I don’t just rely upon regular news feeds, but I go to my authoritative book-marked sites
30Apr2020

The Bee Gees are back!

  • By Ian Bradley
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Just before nodding off to sleep last night my wife turned over and asked me: “are you happy?” As with most men hearing this question, instant alarm bells went off.  With later elaboration, what she really meant was, now during this weird, self-isolating, social-distancing Covid 19 time, was I happy?   It got me thinking
20Apr2020

Developing New Habits

  • By Ian Bradley
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Good habits are great, they function like automatic algorithms that silently function in the background to help us engage in adaptive behaviour. Habits can not only propel us to good things that they do so automatically and without highly conscious and deliberate thought thus freeing our brains to do more complex things. Automatically buckling the
22Mar2020

Coping with Covid-19

  • By Ian Bradley
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I am writing this email from a required 14 day self-isolation required due to my recent Florida golfing trip.   I’ve tried to put together some of my personal thoughts while passing along some hopefully helpful information based upon psychological evidence.   Firstly, why the preoccupation with toilet paper?  Although I have only read about
16Mar2020

The world might never be the same; and maybe that’s good

  • By Ian Bradley
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In the midst of our coronavirus pandemic, it is interesting to speculate about the long-term psychological consequences of the virus and our current coping such as social distancing and hand hygiene. As a psychologist with a specialty in workplace issues, most of my observations focus on this area.   Firstly, long gone are the heroic
27Oct2019

My Own Cigarette Story

  • By Ian Bradley
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 As psychologists, sometimes we don’t realize the importance of some of our work. Here’s my own vignette. Many years ago, and at a relatively young age, I was appointed Chief Psychologist at the large university teaching hospital in Montreal. I was suddenly faced with many daunting tasks not the least of which involved transforming
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