When The Medical Is Personal
At the 2014 TEDxJNJ event I attended, Bennett Levitan of Janssen R&D talked about work he was doing to incorporate patient preference and risk tolerance …
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The Forever Fat Kid: Identity and Growth, Part 2
So you’ve grown up overweight, awkward, unpopular, healthy or not, but now you’ve reached a point where you’re different. And you’re probably struggling to change …
The Forever Fat Kid: Identity and Growth, Part 1
People change all the time. You can think of life as a process of becoming. But one of the funny things about identity, as a …
Building Community Through Shared Identity
Dedicated co-working spaces are proliferating, and it’s probably a huge relief to small startups and remote workers who can finally enjoy community and collaboration without …
Being Both: The Psychology of Identity Integration
Certain identities are deeply meaningful for the time and the place in which we live. Being a woman in the 21st century United States carries …
What Your Email Address Says About You
You know people may judge you by the way you look. You can probably guess that people may also judge you by your email address, …
Medication Adherence and Identity: Shifts in the Meaning of Aging and Comfort with “Old People’s” Drugs
In the work I’ve done with medication adherence, there are several “usual suspects” we find behind people’s failure to take drugs as prescribed. Issues related …