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Steven Hayes in Conversation with Dov Benyaacov-Kurtzamn at CBS Israel

by Steve Hayes | Apr 14, 2017 | Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Evolutionary Psychology, Spirituality

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Why Our Smart Phones are Making Us Unhappy

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...

Ferguson, Beheadings, and the Psychological Challenge of Living in the Modern World

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...

The Mental Spider That Claims to Be Us

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...
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