January

Observation of people: 'There's a lot of psychology in that'
By Jason Berghorst, reporter
January 14, 2020
“There’s a lot of psychology in that.” That’s one of my favorite and most used sayings, at least according to my students and the coworkers that I eat lunch with. Paul Harvey had “the rest of the story.” Al Roker has “here’s what’s happening in your neck of the woods.” My signature saying, it seems, is “there’s a lot of psychology in that.” I’ve been teaching psychology for quite a few years now…
'Fear of Missing Out' costs
January 07, 2020
Growing up, I often heard the phrase “Keeping up with the Joneses.” Now, I didn’t have any neighbors named Jones, but I knew the saying referred to buying something just because someone else already had the same item. By owning the item, you were at the same high social level, and those who didn’t have said item were somehow at a lower socio-economic scale. Decades later the “Keeping up with the…
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month; if you see something, say something
January 15, 2019
To the Editor: Human trafficking often conjures images of girls in Bangladesh or Hong Kong, drugged and incoherent, being sold for sex and being raped by men. While this statement is absolutely true, the face of human trafficking can also represent a “homegrown” commodity here at home. In 2015 a CBS news report, KELO’s Leland Steva reported on sex trafficking in South Dakota and interviewed a…

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