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Posts by Elizabeth Bernstein

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The Micropolitics of Family Gift Giving The real holiday drama is the family gift-giving quagmire.

The most wonderful time of the year? Not if you’re stressed out shopping for your family.

My latest column unpacks why exchanging gifts with family members is so complicated--and offers some advice on how to get it right this year.

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The Case for Being Ungrateful There’s a dark side to gratitude.

Research shows that gratitude has powerful mental- and physical-health benefits.

Yet it needs to be genuine to be effective. Forcing ourselves to be grateful is a form of toxic positivity.

Just in time for Thanksgiving, I took a look at the dark side of gratitude.

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The real Alice of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant” dies at 83 The hippie-era icon who inspired folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s epic, Berkshire's based anti-establishment song “Alice’s Restaurant” has died. Alice Brock took her final breath at a hospice home in Wellfl...

And just before Thanksgiving, too. 💙

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Friends, Dorie Greenspan is here now and trust me when I say this is very good news.

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The best kind of research! Eager to hear your findings.

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American Pie. (Have you done research?)

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Me, please!

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Hi! Thought I’d introduce myself with these beauties I saw in Indiana last week.

I write an advice column at the @WSJ about social psychology (i.e. relationships). I focus on essential topics, such as communication, love, grief, awe, friendship and, yes, sex.

Nice to meet you. please say hello.

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