by Joshua D. Wyner | Jan 1, 2016 | Psychology, Publications
Wyner, J. (in press) Anxiety. In Michon, N & Fisher, D (Eds.), One Thousand Arms: Guidebook to Caring for your Buddhist Community. Richmond Hill, Ontario: Sumeru Press. Excerpt Anxiety is arguably the most human of our emotions. It comes from our ability to...
by Joshua D. Wyner | Jun 7, 2013 | Parenting, Psychology
You’ve decided to give your child an allowance, but can’t decide how much to give them. You head over to your new online parenting specialist, Google, and find the following suggestions: $0.50 per Year of Age $1.00 per Year of Age $100 for the Year, Up...
by Joshua D. Wyner | Jun 1, 2013 | ADHD, Psychology
Keeping ourselves organized and productive is hard. What’s worse is, the more grand our ideas, the harder they can be to work on. We often have a clear picture of what we’d like our project (or life) to look like, but feel so far away from our goal that we...
by Joshua D. Wyner | Jan 3, 2013 | Op-Ed
I recently wrote an opinion on what I believed to be sloppy journalism in the NY Times. Briefly, this article described recent research that suggested “being overweight” was actually protective. I argued that the use of BMI as a primary measure of body fat...
by Joshua D. Wyner | Jan 2, 2013 | Op-Ed
A recent NY Times article claims that people who are slightly overweight have “less risk of dying than people of normal weight.” The author goes on, as any responsible author should, to hedge her claim with quotes from various doctors suggesting that we...
