Popular Press Essays
(Does not include essays that only appear in McAndrew's Psychology Today Blog)
Why do old people hate new music?
- Yahoo News, January 16, 2021
There's no place like home for the holidays - and that's what makes the Covid-19 surge so devastating.
- The Columbia Missourian, December 25, 2020
There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays
- Marin Independent Journal, December 21, 2020
Covid drives home our attachment to home
- The Daily Herald (Everett, Washington), December 20, 2020
There's no place like home for the holidays--and that's
what makes the pandemic's winter surge particularly
devastating - December 18, 2020
There's no place like home for the holidays -- and that's what makes the pandemic's winter surge particularly devastating.
- The Conversation, December 10, 2020 (also appears
in Cadillac News & El Financiero (Mexico))
Q & A about Creepiness - Psychwire, October 30, 2020
ASK about the Psychology of Gossip
- Psychwire, October 24, 2020
Decoding the Freudian Symbolism in Your Dreams
- The Minds Journal, October 1, 2020
Why Losing a Dog can be so Devastating
- Next Truth: Young People Science, September/October 2020
Why You Underestimate How Much Other People Like You
- The Minds Journal, September 24, 2020
Is Your Personality Stressing You Out?
- The Minds Journal, September 18, 2020
How the God You Worship Influences the Ghosts You See
- Next Truth Magazine, August 1, 2020

This surprising factor can predict your life span
- Patriot Health Digest, June 10, 2020
Reading Faces: Why you sometimes get it wrong
- Art in Real Life, June 3, 2020
The psychology behind why clowns creep us out
- Art in Real Life, May 20, 2020
The perils of isolation
- Art of the Mystic Otto Rapp, May 18, 2020
Why losing a dog can be harder than losing a relative or friend
- Considerable, May 6, 2020
Why do old people hate new music? - Purple Sneakers, May 5, 2020
Why we love blood-curdling screams, Next Truth Magazine
- March 1, 2020
How stories about haunted houses become self-perpetuating
- Next Truth Magazine, February 1, 2020
Why losing a dog is so hard - Considerable, January 23, 2020
The psychology of gossip - It is a social skill.
- Actively Learn, January 14, 2020
in Next Truth: Young People Science - January 7, 2020
Why do old people hate new music?
- Albany Times Union, December 19, 2019
Why losing a dog can be harder than losing a relative or friend
- GV Wire, November 25, 2019
Why losing a dog is harder than losing a relative or friend
- Middle East North African Financial Network (MENAFN), November 24, 2019
Why we love blood-curdling screams
- Amazing Stories (QueerSciFi.com), November 6, 2019
Why clowns creep us out - Magnet, November 2, 2019
Why we love big, blood-curdling screams
- Big Think, October 30, 2019
(also in the Wausau Pilot & Review)
How stories about haunted houses become self-perpetuating
- Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture,
October 29, 2019
Why we love big, blood-curdling screams
- Livescience, KASL Radio, & Medical Xpress, October 29, 2019
Why old people hate new music
- The Citizen (South Africa), October 28, 2019

Fear of clowns explained by a psychologist
- Mic, October 28, 2019
Why We Love Big, Blood-Curdling Screams
- The Conversation, October 28, 2019
(also in Discover Magazine, The Houston Chronicle,
Science 2.0, San Antonio Express-News,
Chicago Tribune, SFGate, The Apopka Voice, &
many other media outlets)
Why haunted houses terrify us
- Fast Company, October 23, 2019
Why do you stop liking new music as you get older?
- Curiosity.com, October 21, 2019
Houses of Horror - Aeon Magazine, October 21, 2019
Curious Kids: Why old people hate new music
- ActivelyLearn.com, October 17, 2019
Why losing a dog can be harder than losing a relative or friend
- Times Herald-Record (Middletown NY), October 15, 2019
Why old people hate new music - Der Freitag, October 9, 2019
Why do old people hate new music?
- Texarkana Gazette, October 8, 2019
Why old people hate new music - Quartz, October 7, 2019
Why old people hate new music
- Northwest Florida Daily News, October 7, 2019
Why clowns creep us out
- National Geographic Indonesia, October 6, 2019
Why losing a dog can be harder than losing a relative or friend
- RawStory & Kitsap Sun, October 4, 2019
Why old people hate new music
- also in parent24, October 3, 2019
Why do old people hate new music?
- Psychology Today; also in LiveWire, October 1, 2019
Curiosity & WHYY TV - Philadelphia, October 1, 2019
Why you shouldn't want to be happy all the time
- The Good Men Project, October 1, 2019
Why losing a dog can be harder than losing a relative or friend
- Havasu News, September 30, 2019
Could a lack of intellectual humility be at the root of what ails America? - Blavity, September 27, 2019
Curious Kids: Why do old people hate new music?
- The Conversation, The Associated Press, Chicago Tribune,
San Francisco Chronicle, The Baltimore Sun, & more than
100 other media outlets - September 26, 2019
The psychology behind why clowns creep us out
- ActivelyLearn.com, September 25, 2019
"The Best Days of Our Lives?" An essay about high school included in the playbill for Groan Ups, which ran in London’s Vaudeville Theatre - opened September 20, 2019
How the God you worship influences the ghosts you see
- The Durango Herald & The Meridian Star, September 14, 2019
Why clowns are creepy - FirstPost, September 14, 2019
Gossip - IOL.com, (Independent Online) September 12, 2019
Why losing a dog can be harder than losing a relative or a friend
- McCall Digest, September 11, 2019
Why clowns creep us out - Inverse, Canal Antigua,
& Tuoi Tre - September 10, 2019
How the God you worship influences the ghosts you see
- Business Mirror, September 9, 2019
The psychology behind why clowns creep us out
-The New Orleans Advocate, The Wire, CNN Espanol, Considerable,
CNN Indonesia, & The Salina Post, - September 9, 2019
