You Can Do Better than “Sell in May” It Is not Halloween, but It May Be Passover and Hanukah

They think it's all over, but it may not be!

I t is evident that anyone required to perform at a high level in sport or other physically demanding occupation has a limited number of years before demands made on the body begin to take their toll, sometimes accompanied by difficulties of a psychological nature. Although there may be a good deal of informal support from family, friends, and perhaps even other athletes who have retired, in so...

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Doing It Again and Again May Be Difficult, But It Depends on What You Are Doing

Sentence interpretation is integrating the information of incoming lexical items into a coherent whole. But often the pieces of information do not fit together and have to be shifted in meaning to confirm with the rest of the sentence. These shifts are called coercion (Moens & Steedman, 1988; Pustejovsky, 1995). There is a growing body of experimental work that investigates the processing conse...

There Is an ‘Unconscious,’ but It May Well Be Conscious

Depth psychology finds empirical validation today in a variety of observations that suggest the presence of causally effective mental processes outside conscious experience. I submit that this is due to misinterpretation of the observations: the subset of consciousness called "meta-consciousness" in the literature is often mistaken for consciousness proper, thereby artificially creating space f...

Dollar-cost averaging may not be rational behavior, but it is perfectly normal behavio1:

I nvestors with cash that is destined for stocks often use a dollar-cost averaging plan. They divide the cash into segments, and convert one segment at a time from cash to stocks according to a predetermined schedule. The alternative to dollar-cost averaging is lump-sum investment. The popularity of dollar-cost averaging can be traced back at least to the 1940s. (See, for example, discussions i...