Why Are We So Detached?

Too frequently the trend in our society is for individuals to be detached from one another. Automobiles have taken us off the streets, where we used to greet each other and stop to chit chat.  Cubicles have removed a bit of the humanity in working, as have factories and even computers to some extent. Television […]

Its Good to Help Others

  Our culture tends to associate happiness with getting something.   Why should we humans be programmed to respond so positively to giving? If something like helping benefits the group, it will be associated with pleasure and happiness. While we may have been primed to feel good from giving, it may not be the only reason helping […]