Everybody Loves To Spend Money At Least

Psychopaths Know The Technical Difference Between Right And Wrong - Which Is One Of The Reasons Their Insanity Pleas In Criminal Cases So Rarely Succeed; They Just Fail To Act On That Knowledge.

Credit Or Debit Cards, For Starters, Are Nothing Short Of Shoppers' Novocain. Even In The Age Of Digital Purchases And Virtual Money, We Still Attach A Special Value To Dirty Paper With Pictures Of Presidents On It. Handing Some Of That To A Cashier Simply Hurts More Than Handing Over A Little Sliver Of Plastic.

When We're Awake, Cortisol Can Fragment Memories - One Reason Eyewitness Crime Scene Accounts Are So Unreliable. But At Night That Very Fragmentation Allows Creative Recombinations Of Ideas.

Spare A Thought For The Poor Introverts Among Us. In A World Of Party Animals And Glad-handers, They're The Ones Who Stand By The Punch Bowl. In A World Of Mixers And Pub Crawls, They Prefer To Stay Home With A Book. Everywhere Around Them, Cell Phones Ring And E-mails Chime And They Just Want A Little Quiet.

There's Only One Thing Harder Than Living In A Home With An Adolescent - And That's Being An Adolescent. The Moodiness, The Volatility, The Wholesale Lack Of Impulse Control, All Would Be Close To Clinical Conditions If They Occurred At Another Point In Life. In Adolescence, They're Just Part Of The Behavioral Portfolio.