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Read More ResumeBy Emma Young. General population reports high rates of hallucinations, including experiences previously thought to be associated with certain mental health disorders.
Read More Hallucinations are surprisingly common and varied experiencesBy Emily Reynolds. Negative feelings particularly likely to arise among mothers prone to social comparison.
Read More Parenting Instagram accounts can make mothers feel supported, but also less competentBy Emily Reynolds. Study also finds that we overestimate how negatively our political opponents view us.
Read More We tend to see our political opponents as stupid rather than evilA recent NIMH co-authored study shows that a Department of Veterans Affairs suicide prevention program was associated with fewer inpatient mental health admissions and emergency department visits, and a 5 percent reduction in documented suicide attempts.
Read More Study Shows REACH VET Program Effective for Veterans at High Risk for SuicideBy Emma Young. But top performers do offer more advice, which can be misinterpreted as a sign of quality.
Read More Top performers don’t always provide the best adviceFocusing on happiness can lead to perfectionistic tendencies as people try to sustain what is actually a brief and elusive emotion.
Read More The pursuit of happiness can end in painThe pandemic’s impact on families on the margin has long-term implications.
Read More COVID took many in the prime of life, leaving families to pick up the piecesMedia reports on the mental health crisis that’s been hitting teenagers and stressing hospitals across the country.
Read More Teens deal with mental health crisis that’s overwhelming doctorsThis webinar will discuss some of the critical pre-award grant management processes and milestones, including but not limited to roles and responsibilities from different NIMH officials, review of the project budget, and collection of Just in Time information.
Read More Center for Global Mental Health Research Webinar Series: Grants Management: Pre-AwardWhy do we have superstitions? Where do they come from? And are they helpful or harmful? Find out in the latest episode of PsychCrunch.
Read More Episode 30: The psychology of superstitionsBy Emily Reynolds. Religious exposure has a “domain specific” effect on kids’ understanding of the world
Read More A religious upbringing strengthens children’s belief in divine miracles, but not magicA more recent trend is coaches who specialize in helping people with autism navigate romance.
Read More Dating coaches, who specialize in working with people with autism, are in demandResearch finds that taking a week-long break from social media can help reduce depression and anxiety.
Read More Ditching social media for just 1 week can boost your mental healthBy Emma Young. Actors are no better than the rest of us at reading their own internal signals – but they are better at knowing whether or not these judgements are accurate.
Read More Here’s how actors differ in their ability to read their own bodily signalsBy Emily Reynolds. Concerns that women are less electable lead people to vote for men even when they really wanted to vote for a woman.
Read More Women candidates are seen as less electable — which makes voters less likely to support themBy Donald Officer – Emotions Don’t Think: Emotional Contagion in a Time of Turmoil By Bruce Hutchison, Ph.D. 328 pp. Crossfield Publishing 2021. The full title of this book by retired psychotherapist Bruce Hutchison may give some readers pause. Maybe linking emotion with another recent and deeply consequential contagion comes too soon for comfort. Maybe…
Read More Unthinking, Fast and SlowNIMH-supported researchers have found an online mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy—called Mindful Mood Balance—is effective at reducing residual depressive symptoms and at reducing suicidal ideation in those who experience these symptoms.
Read More Mindful Mood Balance Effective for Treating Residual Depressive Symptoms and Suicidal IdeationBy Emma Young. What makes a word pair funny is different from what makes a single word humorous, study finds.
Read More Here’s why phrases like “rowdy bowels” and “moose ooze” seem funnyBuying and Selling the Poor ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights into how Australia responds to unemployment and disadvantage. As the authors tell the story of four local employment offices, they paint a vivid picture of a critically important social servic Source: Buying and Selling the Poor – Sydney…
Read More Buying and Selling the Poor – Sydney University PressBy Emma Young. Dilated pupils are a sign that someone is attending to us – which makes us pay more attention to them.
Read More We unconsciously pay more attention to someone who has dilated pupilsHelen A. Neville, Ph.D., will provide an overview of the psychology of the radical healing framework.
Read More Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: Implementing Radical Healing Strategies to Promote Health EquityMental Illnesses and COVID-19 Risks
Read More Mental Illnesses and COVID-19 RisksBy Emily Reynolds. Perceived shifts in social norms left supporters feeling prejudice was more acceptable.
Read More Prejudice among Trump supporters increased after he became presidentGraham’s Hierarchy of Disagreement: How to Argue Like an Expert
Read More Graham’s Hierarchy of DisagreementOpen-source software, shared innovation and crowd-sourced manufacturing threaten capitalism as we know it. Source: The $100bn Facebook question: Will capitalism survive ‘value abundance’? | Science and Technology | Al Jazeera
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Read More Lorraine Lee, doing it right?By Aren Cohen – Today is the launch day for the eBook of Kathryn Britton’s new must-read guide to writing: Sit Write Share: Practical Writing Strategies to Transform Your Experience into Content that Matters. The paperback version will be available by May 3. The elegant title of this stellar book captures the basic elements of…
Read More Sit Write Share launches todayStudy finds it’s easier to come up with creative ideas in person.
Read More Virtual meetings can crush creativityBy Emma Young. But are extraverted people actually worse at listening? Only further research will tell.
Read More Extraverts are considered to be poorer listenersIn an unprecedented way Michel Bauwens hijacks the commons. While the commons practiced deliberative and participative democracy in the high middle ages, that weakened from the 16th century, we do … Source: Review of “Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto” of Michel Bauwens | nie pleuen
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Read More https://thereboot.com/creating-decentralized-social-media-alternatives-to-facebook-and-twitter/After age and genetics, being a woman is the single most important risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s disease.
Read More Women responded better than men to early Alzheimer’s interventionPsychologist recommends being honest, but not to the point of making a child worry about money.
Read More What to say if a child asks if the family is poorBy Emma Young. People made faster but less accurate decisions when background music was playing, regardless of tempo.
Read More Background music can make us less cautiousDr. Gates is a theoretical physicist known for his work on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory. He will present on how looking at genetics and networks led to solving a quantum gravity problem.
Read More Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: How Looking at Genetics and Networks Led to Solving a Quantum Gravity ProblemSource: P2P | there are (ir)regular complaints that there is “too much” coverage on the neo-racist and neo-segregationist threat to our societies in this forum, bas… | Facebook This is you evaluating yourself I had noticed it was a special week and I was impressed that you seemed to be making an effort.. This…
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Read More cPanel – SSL/TLSNew research has discovered details about the state of adolescent mental health in the United States during the pandemic.
Read More Adolescent suicides increased in 5 US states during the pandemicWhat I want to talk about today is how any overplayed trait can be toxic, and that rescuing and victimhood in management is just as dysfunctional as persecution in a workplace. Source: We Need To Talk About Toxic Femininity At Work
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Read More Toxic femininity | Geek Feminism Wiki | FandomThe different factors that affect communities of color limiting access to proper health care are explained.
Read More Clinical psychologist breaks down racial, health disparitiesDiscover the world’s scientific knowledge | With 20+ million researchers, 1+ million questions and 130+ million publications, this is where everyone can access science Source: Search Publications | ResearchGate
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Read More Fediverse – WikipediaGuns overtook car crashes to become the leading cause of death for US children and teenagers in 2020.
Read More Gun deaths were the leading killer of US children in 2020By Emma Young. Experience made participants doubt their ability to judge people’s character, and threatened their sense of meaning in the world.
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