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Boys will be boys? ADHD and “normal behavior”
Between us, Amber and I are raising three elementary-middle school sons. We counter our very busy professional lives with weekends and evenings of martial arts, soccer, homework, and play dates. For...
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Haiti, Cholera, and the Downhill Flow of Blame
On two visits his year, I have been working out of an office in a beautiful colonial era villa in Petion-ville, Haiti. From the 2nd floor terrace, I can drink coffee and enjoy the vista of Jalousie,...
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Those “dirty people” often aren’t: Our lesson from Ireland
“ In 2015, we were invited to friendly Dublin, Ireland to collaborate on a new project focusing on the social dimensions of water. At the time, Ireland was in the midst of a highly emotional political...
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Gender Norms, Stressful Stigma, and the “Critical” Role of Families.
The Global Impact Collaboratory has had a very busy month. The core team (Roseanne Schuster, Peggy Ochandarena, and me) have been in the West Bank of Palestine working on developing new tools to allow...
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Nothing sweet about it: Stigma and living with diabetes
This week I began teaching on online class on poverty and global health. The first assignment was for students to write briefly about their personal experiences with health inequities. The posts were...
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Hygiene-related stigma is an under-recognized problem for sanitation...
The Global Ethnohydrology project began in 2006, imagined by Amber as a postdoc when she first came to ASU. We have a rhythm to the project, and each year we select a new topic, connect to new...
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Citizen Social Science as a tool to study urban stigma
In Fall 2018 I had the joy of getting back to classroom teaching after an extended leave to focus on research. For my re-entry, I chose a research practicum. The class is focused on exposing global...
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From Samoa to Japan: Narrowing body norms and expanding anxieties.
Sophie To, an undergraduate student at Yale, is just finishing up her thesis work from data collected in Samoa under the supervision of our wonderful colleague Nicola Hawley. Sophie has replicated a...
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Sweaty and disgusting: More thoughts on how hygiene norms work to maintain...
Today it is HOT in Arizona, like most summer days. But in August the monsoon rolls in and so does the humidity. Things get sweaty. Sweat is obviously useful, an evolved mechanism that helps our “naked...
View ArticleOur new blog – Diagnosis: Human
Our blog has now permanently moved to Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/diagnosis-human. Following are copies of older posts from our previous blog, LazyCrazyDisgusting.Com.
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