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Amy Bucher, Ph.D.

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Why Great Design Will Never Be 100% Effective

No matter how well-designed, well-researched, and well-implemented any given product or experience is, it will never work for 100% of people. This is true for […]

PsychologyPosted on: March 27, 2017

From the Archives: Competition, Collaboration, and Writing

I was browsing through some of my old documents, and came across a piece I wrote in grad school about competition and collaboration in academia, […]

PsychologyPosted on: July 6, 2016July 5, 2016

Yes, Be Yourself: In Defense of Authenticity

Over the weekend I saw a NY Times op ed article pop up in my RSS feed (yes, I maintain an RSS feed) that rebuts the idea […]

PsychologyPosted on: June 6, 2016June 6, 2016

Motivation and Authenticity: Old Bedfellows

For all of my interest in both motivation and authenticity, I was stunned to realize in reading a book about con artists (of all things) […]

PsychologyPosted on: May 11, 2016May 10, 2016

BART Tells It Like It Is: When Corporate Social Media Gets Real

Last week, San Francisco’s public transit system, the BART, experienced electrical problems that negatively impacted service. As people are wont to do, riders flocked to Twitter […]

Case Study , PsychologyPosted on: March 30, 2016March 28, 2016

Measured Authenticity for Art that Resonates

I’m very interested in the concept of how much a person’s self-expression for an audience (whether it’s writing, performance, art, or something else) should be personal. […]

Psychology , ReflectionPosted on: February 29, 2016February 26, 2016

Shonda Rhimes Joins The Authenticity-Is-Happiness Club

I recently talked a bit about the book Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by […]

Happiness , PsychologyPosted on: February 1, 2016January 22, 2016

Saying Yes and Saying No: A Purpose-Guided Agenda

In further evidence that I’m a product of my era, I decided to read Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun […]

Happiness , PsychologyPosted on: January 20, 2016January 13, 2016

Is Freedom the Pursuit of Happiness? The Boston Public Library Liberty Tree

I was wandering through the Boston Public Library‘s main branch at Copley Square (a truly enchanted building) when I stumbled across an interactive exhibit to […]

Happiness , PsychologyPosted on: September 28, 2015September 12, 2015

I Gotta Be Me: When Authenticity is Hard

Being yourself is the quickest path to happiness, but that doesn’t mean it’s always easy to do. Sometimes being true to yourself involves making hard […]

Happiness , PsychologyPosted on: September 4, 2015July 2, 2019

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