I decided to create this blog because my areas of scholarship were starting to merge in my head and I thought it might be helpful if I could “tag” writing elements to document those overlapping boundaries.  I am trained as an experimental social psychologist and I have FAR TOO MANY research interests to be very productive in any one of them.  One of those research interests relates to existential curiosity (sometimes referred to as existential mindfulness).  I’ve been interested in existential philosophy since undergrad days.   Although a psychology major, one of my favorite classes was European Cultural History (with the esteemed Herr Doctor Bohnstedt), where I was introduced to the ideas of these dead, white guys (and one gal): 

Soren Kierkegaard

Jean Paul Sarte

Albert Camus

Simone de Beauvoir

I think I still have the paper I wrote for that class about the influence of the existentialists on psychology.

The learning curve for this blog business is pretty steep for me so forgive my initial stumbles.