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Psychologists Thompson and Douglass explore the psychology behind dating and attraction. They talk about being "creepy" and it's relation to the powerful male need for sex and sexual affirmation. The talk about the subtle qualities of being attractive and the catch 22 of showing one's desperate needs as repulsive to women.

Why do families fight at Christmas? Why do people get depressed? Psychologists Dr Douglass and Dr Thompson explore the psychology behind the Christmas tradition. What is happening in our culture around Christmas? Why is it such a powerful tradition? We identify similarities between Christmas and fantasies of romance or fantasies of transcendence. What is the best thing to teach kids about Santa Claus?

We explore the underlying emotional/psychological trends in most romantic relationships. We identify the common pitfalls in relationships and marriage. We identify alternative possibilities for love, sex and marriage. We discuss the pros and cons of monogamy, polyamory, nonmonogamy, serial monogamy, and casual dating.

Its like a new drug and the addicts can be seen trapped in Selfie. Body positivity and forms of self acceptance battle the need to look like a model. Mere mortals live in anxiety laden habitats. One navigates this terrain with bent spine kneeling for a new god.

Heroes inspire us. They soar to great heights and fill us with hope for transcendence. Then they crest, and dive, and crash ...and our tabloids rush to the scene to show pictures of their fabulous demise. America ravenously watches the rise and the fall. We can't get enough. In this video we explore the psychology behind this archetypal American story.

We talk about the explosion of fitness obsession in American over the last 20 years. We analyze the psychology behind this and we explore the healthy, and perhaps not so healthy roots of the drive to achieve fitness goals.

Humans are guided by stars. In ancient times, stars were the gods. Eventually they were replaced by religion. The wise men were guided to Jesus by the stars. Religion was replaced by great thinkers. Eventually George Washington and John Rockefeller were the new idols. In the 20th century our new gods/leaders became the stars of Hollywood.

Psychologists Dr. Puran Douglass and Dr. David Thompson explore the emotional and psychological reason why fighting and romantic relationships are inextricably linked.

Racism and Woke-ism seem like opposites, but the psychology behind them is the same. In this video we dig into the psychological roots of racism, the woke movement, and the charged atmosphere of us vs them in Covid-era America. Why does everyone seem on edge? Where is all the judgment, righteousness and hatred coming from?

Dr Thompson and Dr Douglass define midlife crisis and explore the psychological roots of it. We discuss the life path that results in what has come to be called midlife crisis. We dispel the myth that it's an irrational chapter in a man's life where he wants to buy a sports car and have an affair.