NEW PODCAST: Ayelet Fishbach is an expert in goals and motivation! bit.ly/3PFlBeX Her book, Get It Done, illuminates invaluable strategies for pulling yourself in whatever direction you want to go—so you can achieve your goals.

Shoot! Douglas Kenrick's Stone Age Brain and I are just outside the ev psych top ten, but the books above us are tough competition. Solving Modern Problems With a Stone-Age Brain: Human Evolution and the Seven Fundamental Motives (APA LifeTools Series) a.co/d/5BWiR15

How any woman could go to a Halloween party and say all night long “I came as Amber Heard, who was raped by her ex husband and now has to pay him millions of dollars” is beyond me.

Pretty cool to see our anthology, Disability and Social Justice in Kenya, on the shelves of Carlson Library at UToledo Would be even cooler to see it in the hands of students, staff, faculty, and community members. Check it out from the New Books shelf now!

This Zombified Media episode turned out really well! Undead Live! Building the Perfect Post-Apocalypse youtu.be/WQ2mCDwlnBg via YouTube

The art of innovation | TED Talks bit.ly/3NbviBc #tedtalk #innovation #siliconvalley

Meet Ahra Ko 고아라 (ahrako.org)--she explores the ways that motivations shape social cognition + behavior across cultures, in social relationships, + w/in individuals (e.g., wellbeing). She also has very cool data on how people think about diversity! She's on the market!

ICYMI: I had two wonderful episodes this week. I talked with the brilliant Siddhartha Mukherjee about his fabulous new book, The Song of The Cell.

And the full episode with Massimo here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/con…

Leaving or thinking of leaving Twitter, where should you go? My suggestion is LinkedIn. It's the most likely place for people to be who they say they are, and there is built-in motivation for behaving (ie, getting a job or developing business).

I hope everyone is enjoying my conversation with Richard V. Reeves. We must have honest discussions about how masculinity fits in a 21st century.

Can psychological principles help us understand why we love some movies and hate others? In this podcast and linked video, we consider the highest-grossing film of all time in light of fundamental social motives. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sex-mu…

While I’ve enjoyed my time on Twitter, I’ve decided to go back to my preferred form of social media, which is making cutting boards out of scrap wood and giving them to friends. So, if you want a cutting board, let me know.