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 | 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...