by Steve Hayes | Sep 8, 2014 | Depression, Evolutionary Psychology, Happiness, Relationships
Social Comparison and the Rise of Mental Health Problems in Young Americans Your smart phone could be making you miserable. Young Americans today are facing levels of stress, anxiety, depression and other mental illnesses that are higher than they were a generation...
by Steve Hayes | Aug 25, 2014 | Evolutionary Psychology, Human Beings, Human Suffering, Relationships
The human mind did not evolve for the world we live in. Over the last twenty-four hours I’ve gazed at the image of a reporter about to be beheaded. Moments later in the same newscast I watched a mother and father express their rage, sadness, and dismay when their...
by Steve Hayes | Feb 20, 2012 | Blog, Cognitive Defusion, Evolutionary Psychology, Happiness
Not too long ago, perhaps a couple hundred thousand years, an obscure primate species called “human” learned a new trick. We learned to relate one thing to another arbitrarily — we learned to have one thing stand for another. We acquired symbolic...