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To successfully make light of tragedy, humorists must make their jokes within a specific window of time after a threat has passed — not too close to the event, and not too much later.  Article written by Tom Jacobs.

http://www.salon.com/2013/12/18/psychology_helps_explains_why_louis_c_k_is_so_funny_partner/

Building on Daniela Tempesta’s article (posted here), a psychologist makes several clear and important suggestions for those uncertain about how to find the right therapist.  Article written by Michael J. Tansey.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-j-tansey/psychotherapist-search_b_4856106.html

LSD’s anxiety-reducing effects have been experimentally tested — and apparently verified — in a study published by The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.  Article written by Jacob Sullum.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2014/03/04/first-study-of-lsds-psychotherapeutic-benefits-in-four-decades-breaks-research-taboo/

Empathy — the quality of engagement with the minds of others — has a neurological basis, and is essential to viewing these other persons as equally human.  Article written by Nicholas Epley.

http://www.salon.com/2014/03/02/the_psychology_of_hate_how_we_deny_human_beings_their_humanity/

Chronic stress can change the brain, strengthening fight-or-flight neural pathways while inhibiting rational analysis.  Article posted by the University of California at Berkeley.

http://www.psypost.org/2014/02/new-evidence-that-chronic-stress-predisposes-brain-to-mental-illness-22656