Because of my latest book, Spirituality Through a Highly Sensitive Lens: An Objective Look at Meditation Methods and Enlightenment, my blog posts now have two parts in each post—Part I will give brief reviews of a selection of recent research, and Part II will be in keeping with the tone of the new book, something […]
Part I: Recent Interesting Research & Part II: On the Subject of Surrender
As has become usual, my blog is in two parts, the first with the research I selected to summarize for you, and the second, in keeping with my new book (Spirituality Through a Highly Sensitive Lens: An Objective Look at Meditation Methods and Enlightenment), about something “spiritual.” To see the second part, just scroll down. […]
Part I: Interesting Research & Part II: More on Spiritual Experiences – Their Five Characteristics
With my latest book, Spirituality Through a Highly Sensitive Lens: An Objective Look at Meditation Methods and Enlightenment, in mind, my blog posts are now structured in two parts. Part I offers brief reviews of selected recent research, while Part II reflects the more “spiritual” tone of the book. To explore that portion, simply scroll […]
Part I: A Selection of the Latest Research & Part II: Spiritual Experiences VS Awakening/Enlightenment
Because of my new book coming out March 31, Spirituality Through a Highly Sensitive Lens: An Objective Look at Meditation Methods and Enlightenment), my blog posts now have two parts in each post—Part I will give brief reviews of a selection of recent research, and Part II will be in keeping with the tone of […]
Part I: The Latest Research & Part II: The Container and the Contained
With my upcoming book, Spirituality Through a Highly Sensitive Lens: An Objective Look at Meditation Methods and Enlightenment (coming out this April), I’ll be sharing two parts in each blog post—the first will explore research, HSP news, and current insights, while the second will offer a more spiritual reflection and deeper inner perspective. CLARIFYING SPS, […]
Revisiting Vulnerable Narcissism and HSPs
In August 2022, I wrote a blog strongly questioning an article saying that high sensitivity (HS) can “overlap” with vulnerable narcissism (as opposed to the grandiose form). Scott Barry Kaufman wrote a good blog on this too. Vulnerable narcissists are a relatively new idea, a category of narcissists born from the observation that they are highly focused on themselves—”am […]
Highly Sensitive High Sensation Seekers—Giving Equal Love to Both Parts
This blog is about high sensitivity and high sensation seeking because I want you to stay informed about recent research and we just published an article on this subject by Bianca Acevedo, Art Aron, me, Tracy Cooper, and Robert Marhenke: “Sensory processing sensitivity and its relation to sensation seeking,” in the 2023 issue of Current Research in […]
Last of the 2022 Research
My plan is to finish up here telling you about the research done in 2022. In the future I will just choose one new study and write about what it brings up for me to talk to you about it. So as promised, here are the last good studies of 2022. I know some of you […]
Research: High Sensitivity Wrongly Identified with Narcissism, Plus Studies on Parenting Applied to Managing and Caregiving
This blog on research needs a long introduction before coming to the studies themselves. After receiving questions about the research article “Do highly sensitive persons display hypersensitive narcissism?” that came out in February, I knew it was going to be an issue for HSPs. Hence the first half of this blog. As a heads up, […]
More Research, from 2018 and 2019
I am continuing to close the gap between my 2017 report on research of HSPs/SPS (sensory processing sensitivity) and what is being published in 2022. In my last blog, I reported on the recent research and what had come out in 2021. Of course, I am already behind, with the new studies in 2022. But here you […]