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Every policymaker knows the dilemma: should governments trust people to do the right thing, or make sure they do it? The safer option has usually been enforcement. Write the rules, monitor behavior, punish violations. Citizens obey because they have to. Yet most regulators also know something they rarely act on: people tend to follow rules […]
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After nearly thirty years working as an addiction psychiatrist with people with drug related problems, I have met many young people experiencing often severe challenges including dependence and associated mental health issues. Some are desperate for support to stop using substances, while others want to continue using drugs but reduce their risk of further harm. […]
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Nebulae are those star nurseries familiar through the fabulous Hubble images like the one above. Languages are also born – indeed every language is reborn, quite literally in the nursery. In my new book The Interaction Engine, just like the astronomers I turn the focus not onto language itself but onto the systems that gave […]
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Third edition of Seminars in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a major revision which was long overdue given that the second edition was published 20 years ago. That was around the same time I started working as a child and adolescent psychiatrist in the NHS. As the editor my motivation for the revision of this […]
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What was your very first “real” job? Maybe it came after high school or college, or maybe it came long before that. Maybe it aligned with your academic degree or credentials exactly, or, perhaps, it looked nothing like the work for which you thought you were preparing. For many of us, the transition into the […]
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Millions young people across the world grow up every day with some variation of violence affecting their lives. Millions more—sometimes the very same young people—may participate in that violence, even as many of their peers are also counteracting it and building a more peaceful world. Young people’s relationship to peace and violence is often talked […]
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To call Jay Belsky a pioneer or trailblazer would be a gross understatement. He was an evolutionary psychologist before there was evolutionary psychology, and he was an evolutionary developmental psychologist before there was evolutionary developmental psychology. To this day, Belsky remains a leader in the (unfortunately, very small) field of evolutionary developmental psychology. In many […]
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We frequently engage in competition—whether as participants or facilitators—across various contexts, often without conscious awareness or even while denying its presence. While competition is traditionally associated with familiar arenas such as the job market, sports, and college admissions, its influence extends far beyond these settings. It is present in democratic elections, where voters indirectly drive […]
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