I’m quoted in today’s New York Times as a self-help expert in a creative spin on Goldman Sachs and their soul-searching new business mission statement. The report, Jesse Eisinger, wanted to title the piece “Eat, Pray, Trade” a la Elizabeth Gilbert, but I guess the Times copydesk thought that was too edgy for the business section.

My review of Stephanie Coontz’s terrific new book — A Strange Stirring — on Betty Friedan and The Feminist Mystique, is up on Huffington Post and as an Essential Read on Psychology Today.

Wondering about thrift and young-adults? Read my latest musings on BigQuestionsOnline.com. (Teaser: I argue that young-adults are pretty good about money, we just haven’t given them the necessary tools to succeed.)

And last, but certainly not least, the website for my forthcoming book, Generation WTF: From What the #$%&! to a Wise, Tenacious, and Fearless You is up and running as of this afternoon. Check out http://www.generationwtf.com to learn about the book, which (to make today a really, REALLY big day) is already shipping off of Amazon.com, even though it’s not officially out for another few weeks.

Good stuff all around.

Read my take on all this good news in a featured Psychology Today blog post here.

But then there’s the bad news: The Pew report notes that those without a college degree are more likely to experience divorce and multiple marriages than those with a college degree, findings which are in keeping with previous research. And this divergence threatens our future. Read my take on the bad news in a second Psychology Today blog post here.

That warning nagged in my mind this past weekend as my Mom and I went shopping and had lunch in the restaurant of a big department store, joining scores of mother-daughter pairs enacting the same ritual. It’s the quintessential bonding experience, but just past the shared dressing rooms and Cobb salads are often fraught relationships that will keep therapists in business for decades to come.

In her new book, You’re Grounded Forever… But First, Let’s Go Shopping, Barash offers a new twist on the age-old topic of mothering, arguing that expectations for mother-daughter connections are greater than ever before–and we’re falling short. All too often mothers make excuses for their daughters, fail to set limits and in turn hold their daughters back even if they have the best of intentions. Daughters, meanwhile, learn early to manipulate the situation and sneak in that extra pair of shoes at the end of the shopping trip (or a whole lot worse.)

Barash’s book is full of both approachable research and clear advice for mothers and daughters of every age. If you are a mother of a young daughter, consider it preventative medicine.

Read my full Psychology Today review here. The editors voted my blog review of the book “essential reading” and featured the piece under the parenting section. A similar review will go up later today on Huffington Post, too.

Listen to the whole show–cue it up to minute 17–you can download the MP3 here.

Check out my piece on teaching virtue to a skeptical generation on Psychology Today and Big Questions Online. A quote from the piece made the best-quotes ticker on the Psychology Today website Saturday Sept. 11, which was fun. And the piece was picked up by Bowdoin Daily Sun. So far my students seem pretty interested in the course!

• BizMe, an online magazine geared toward Millennial business women, quoted me in a fun piece on being successful and sexy.

• Author of 168 Hours Laura Vanderkam quoted me on her blog. The discussion about women young, single women out-earning their male peers (go SWANS!) got picked up by AOL News, too. Thanks, Laura!

• My review of Gallup’s book, Wellbeing, was picked up by a new website — WholeLifeWellbeing– devoted to living out the advice in the Wellbeing book.

• On August 29, I was a guest on Intersections Match, a monthly show on BlogTalkRadio, to discuss dating myths and realities for high-achieving women. Listen here if you want to tune into the chat.

This month’s SELF magazine has a terrific piece about the lessons we can all learn from last year’s deaths. Roxanne and I logged in several hours of talk time over the last few months as she crafted the piece, “When Self-Help Harms,” and she did an excellent job. (Yes, I’m quoted extensively, but I don’t rave about all the pieces that quote me, lemme tell ya!)

Check it out here—and, because it’s always more fun to read glossy magazines than words on a screen, buy the September issue in hard copy.

Self-help doesn’t have to be harmful, but too often gurus lead enthusiastic people astray. I hope this piece helps us all remember that if we think something is powerful enough to help us, we’ve got to acknowledge the fact that it also has the power to harm us. There’s some terrific self-help out there—advice that is based in virtuous living and backed by psychological research. My fervent hope is that this article helps all of us make smarter choices about what advice we seek in our journeys of self-improvement.

Brian was good enough to quote me as the voice of academic caution. Just to be clear, all you high-earning ladies out there need not panic. Two quick points…

1) The study focused on 18- to 28-year-olds who were married or living together and who had been in the same relationship for at least a year, he reports. The under 30 set isn’t known to be the most stable in terms of their relationships. And, without knowing the exact breakdown of the data, I’d imagine that at least half (if not more) of these couples weren’t married. As a general rule, couples who live together don’t have the same commitment that married couples do — it’s a trial run, a high-octane version of dating — so you’d expect relationships to be more fluid and cheating to be more common.

2) When couples fight or split up, money isn’t usually the cause of the dispute. It’s something deeper. Perhaps they are drifting apart, perhaps they have different values. Let’s not fall into the trap that men are intimidated by a woman’s salary. Indeed, research shows that men are increasingly valuing a woman’s ability to be a good earner when picking a mate.

The academic findings of this research are probably impeccable. But the vast majority of high-earning, hard-working women need not get their panties in a twist about money and infidelity. Tell your husband you love him and value him. Spend time together as a family. Be open and communicate. And trust him: Even in this study of young’uns who may or may not be married, fewer than 7% of the men cheated.

Yesterday, she wrote a terrific piece encouraging smart women to take heart–reminding us, again, that the facts are in our favor. She quotes my research extensively, and that of many of our like-minded colleagues. For all you SWANS® out there, check out Prof. Rivers’s piece (and ignore the unnecessary fear-mongering!)