About Psychology Says

Last month we spent an issue on hydration, and how little of the standard advice survives a close look.

Psychology Says is a monthly letter about everyday wellbeing. Not the crisis version, not the clinical version. The ordinary stuff: sleep that slips, the water you are told to drink, the habit that lasted nine days and then quietly stopped.

We read the research so the letter has something to stand on. Then we say what we think. When a popular claim turns out to be thin, we say that too. This is a publication with opinions, and we would rather be clear and occasionally wrong than vague and safe.

Each issue takes one small subject and stays with it. A habit that survives a bad week. Why some routines stick and others never take. What hydration advice gets right and what it invents. We also print reader notes, because the people reading tend to know things we do not.

What we do not do: hand out life plans, promise outcomes, or manufacture urgency. There is no course to buy and no thread to follow between issues. One letter arrives, you read it or you do not, and a month later there is another.

Subjects we return to

• Reader notes
• Habits that survive a bad week
• Habits that stick
• Hydration without the mythology

Timing

A single monthly issue.

Who we are, formally

Psychology Says is produced in Dover, DE. The company behind it and our registered address are on the Terms of Use.

Write to us at info@psychologysays.net — it reaches a real mailbox.