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The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. To Beat the Winter Blues, Think Like a Norwegian You might find inspiration for handling the dark months ahead from Norwegians, according to Kari Leibowitz.   Leibowitz, a PhD candidate in social psychology at Stanford University, has studied how Norwegians cope with winter and “polar nights,” the period beginning on November 21 when the sun sets in Norway and doesn’t rise again ...

You might find inspiration for handling the dark months ahead from Norwegians, according to Kari Leibowitz. “…people in Norway didn’t see it so much as something to survive—they saw it as an opportunity for lots of things they loved…” Leibowitz, a PhD candidate in social psychology at Stanford University, has studied how Norwegians cope with winter and “polar nights,” the period beginning on November 21 when the sun sets in Norway and doesn’t rise again for another two months. She spent a year at the University of Tromsø, located 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, to bet...

How a Norwegian mindset about winter might help in a COVID-19 world December 21, 2020USC As people brace themselves for a long winter of cold weather, short days and COVID-19 lockdowns and shelter-in-place orders, they might find inspiration from Norwegians about how to handle the dark months ahead, according to Stanford scholar Kari Leibowitz. Leibowitz has studied how Norwegians cope with winter and “polar nights,” the period beginning on Nov. 21 when the sun sets in Norway and doesn’t rise again for another two months. She spent a year at the University of Tromsø, located 200 miles...

When doctors offer a few words of reassurance, patients suffering an allergic reaction begin to feel better more quickly. The finding by Stanford psychologists suggests that the placebo effect applies to words as well as to pills. It might be especially easy to love winter in Tromsø – it’s magical, surrounded by snowy mountains and fjords. But I think the people in Tromsø have strategies for making winter wonderful that people can use wherever they are. People in Tromsø see winter as full of opportunities, whereas in the U.S. we tend to only focus on the ways winter limits us and the t...