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Dr. Edwin A. Fleishman was an American psychologist best known Internationally for his work in the field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

“Companies with a wider pool of talent and an inclusive culture can reap the rewards of authentic employees sharing broader perspectives," says Dr. Afra Ahmad, director of the master of professional studies in applied industrial and organizational psychology program at George Mason University. “That can lead to greater innovation and better decision making for products and services.”

With the support of an F31 National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health, Mason doctoral student Sarah Giff is examining the connection between parents with PTSD and their children’s emotional functioning, looking specifically at military families.

If therapy trains people to reduce/avoid/get rid of their difficult thoughts and feelings, then people view the presence of difficult thoughts and feelings as the enemy

The findings came as little surprise to James Maddux, senior scholar with the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Va. "Research on the relationship between wealth and happiness, for individuals and nations, has been evolving for decades and has shown that the relationship is complex, as this study again demonstrates," Maddux noted.

As part of my series about the women in wellness, I had the pleasure of interviewing Robyn Mehlenbeck.

“Happiness is not a zero sum game,” says June Tangney, PhD, a professor of psychology at George Mason University, who studies guilt. “The idea that your happiness takes away from others is false.”

James Maddux is a senior scholar with the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being at George Mason University in Virginia. Though not a part of the study team, he suggested that the findings might stem from a youthful ability to delay gratification.

The lingering stigma about mental illness is honestly somewhat mind-boggling, given how common it is! I think that much of this derives from early messages children receive about mental illness — we do not cover it well in early education at all, and cultural messages (TV, movies, etc.) frequently do a further disservice.