When you hear the word "abuse," some form of physical abuse, verbal abuse or sexual abuse may come to mind. But people may not think about emotional abuse. This kind of abuse can be more subtle to ...

Patterns of lying for all kinds of reasons in all kinds of situations.

First, it is important for us to paint an accurate picture of what we mean by ‘emotional abuse’; it is a term that is becoming increasingly common outside of medical circles, and which has been often ...

Earlier in my career as a behavioral scientist, I never quite understood why social behaviors and outcomes were often framed as so integrally connected to our emotion systems—so much so that the ...

Dear Annie: I’ve been in a long marriage. In the early years, we had happy times, but things have changed. For a while now, I’ve been enduring emotional, psychological and verbal abuse from my husband ...