Peter Toohey
Rene Magritte, "The Submissive Reader" (1928).
Essays:
₪ "Don't People Enjoy Reading Anymore?" Annals of the
Emotions (Psychology Today Blog). July 7, 2018.
₪ "Mental Illness- Seeing And Hearing from the Inside Out,"
Annals of the Emotions (Psychology Today Blog). May 12, 2018.
₪ "Are You Just Daydreaming - Or Is It Boredom?" Annals of
the Emotions (Psychology Today Blog). April 30, 2018.
₪ "The Dead, Their Cell Phones, Jealousy, and Digital Wills,"
Annals of the Emotions (Psychology Today Blog). April 18, 2018.
₪ "Shoe shaming in the strictest school in Britain." Annals of
the Emotions (Psychology Today Blog). August 1, 2017.
₪ "Is Your Smartphone Really Giving You Head Lice?"
Annals of the Emotions (Psychology Today Blog). July 8, 2017.
₪"The End Of Guilt". Annals of the Emotions (Psychology
Today Blog). June 6, 2017.
₪ "Tired of Putting Things Off, and Being Seen as a Bore?"
Annals of the Emotions (Psychology Today Blog), February 27,
2017.
₪ "Do Cleaner Shrimp Get Jealous?" Annals of the Emotions
(Psychology Today Blog). February 17, 2017.
₪ "Jealousy In Animals and Envy in Humans. Some new work on
envy from Spain and a friendly but jealous dog." Annals of the
Emotions (Psychology Today Blog). October 29, 2016.
₪ "Disability in the Roman Digest" in Disability in Antiquity,
ed Christian Laes. Routledge: London and New York,
October 2016.
₪ "Was Telesinia Crispinilla killed by a broken heart?"
Annals of the Emotions (Psychology Today Blog), September 5,
2016.
₪ “Love in outer space - or just in your head?" Annals of the
Emotions (Psychology Today Blog), June 28, 2016.
₪ “Celebrating the Ordinary – The Advantages of Being Dull (Leland Carlson,
Dull Men of Great Britain: Celebrating the Ordinary, Ebury Press 2016)”,
Annals of the Emotions (Psychology Today Blog), April 30, 2016.
₪ "Die Evolution der Langeweile” (The evolution of boredom), in Renate
Breuninger and Gregor Schiemann (eds.), Langeweile: Ein Philosophisches
Lesebuch. Campus: Frankfurt, Germany, 2015.
₪ "Who's In The Mirror?", Annals of the Emotions (Psychology Today Blog),
₪ "Maybe It’s Harder To Kill Yourself Than You Picture", Annals of the
Emotions (Psychology Today Blog), February 9, 2016.
₪ "Depressed and Looking Forward to the End of the World? Annals of the
Emotions (Psychology Today Blog), January 1, 2016.
₪ "A gourmand's guide to the passionate life: Neel Burton, Heaven and Hell:
The Psychology of the Emotions (Acheron Pr. 2015)"Annals of the Emotions
(Psychology Today Blog), November 17, 2015.
₪ “Ljobomora ili utopija [Jealousy or utopia],” Danas.rs, October 23/4, 2015
(excerpted from the Serbian translation of Jealousy).
₪ "What’s Wrong with Ekaterina Demidova?" Annals of the
Emotions (Psychology Today Blog), September 12, 2015.
₪“What Do You Look Like When You’re Bored?” Annals of the
Emotions (Psychology Today Blog), August 6, 2015.
₪ "Play, Primates, Jealousy, Work, and Losing Deliberately," Annals of the
Emotions (Psychology Today Blog), May 27, 2015.
₪ “Boredom can free the mind, but too much of it will make you crazy,”
The Guardian, May 1, 2015.
₪ “Harming the innocent to punish the guilty,” Annals of the Emotions
(Psychology Today Blog), April 16, 2015.
₪ “How do you feel if you can’t read?” Annals of the Emotions (Psychology
Today Blog), April 3, 2015.
₪ “What makes you say you're lonely,” Annals of the Emotions (Psychology
Today Blog), March 26, 2015.
₪ “Jealousy in Street Art,” Annals of the Emotions (Psychology Today Blog),
February 19, 2015.
₪ “What am I reading? Ingmar Bergman, The Magic Lantern,” American
Campaign for Literacy, January 2015.
₪ “Keeping jealousy to yourself,” Annals of the Emotions (Psychology Today Blog),
January 10, 2015.
₪ “Painting boredom in the Renaissance,” Annals of the Emotions
(Psychology Today Blog), December 13, 2014.
₪ “Leave Stephen King alone: ‘Misery,’ income inequality and the connection between
jealousy and creativity,” Salon, December 7, 2014.
₪ “Sibling Rivalry: A History,” The Atlantic, November 30, 2014.
₪ “You are not the man I married,” Annals of the Emotions (Psychology
Today Blog), November 25, 2014.
₪ “The green-eyed monster: why do we get jealous?” The Independent, Wednesday October 15,
2014.
₪ “Five Best Books on Boredom,” Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2012.
₪ “Lastword: Boredom at school and at work,” Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Journal, Summer 2012.
₪ “Why do I get bored?” Big Questions from Little People: Answered by Some Very Big People, ed. Gemma Elwin Harris, (National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children), London: Faber and Faber, 2012.
₪ “Boredom: a year’s history,” The Montreal Review, September 30, 2011.
₪ “The thrill of boredom,” New York Times (Sunday Review), August 7, 2011.
₪ “You look bored,” Slate Magazine, June 8, 2011.