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By Matthew Warren. Study provides preliminary evidence that we interpret yawning as a disease cue – but further work is needed.
Read More Stigmatisation of yawning could be a strategy to avoid disease, study arguesBy Emma Young. Results suggest that mind-wanderers enjoy greater cognitive flexibility.
Read More People prone to mind-wandering are better at shifting between tasksBy Emily Reynolds. Job-seekers were even willing to explore jobs with lower salaries when companies were more diverse.
Read More Job-seekers prefer to work for more diverse companiesBy 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 themCities say they need more social and professional support to succeed in the job long term.
Read More Many cities are putting hopes in violence interrupters, but few understand their challengesBuyout firms and venture capitalists are pouring billions of dollars into mental-health clinics and therapy startups.
Read More Millions of Americans are turning to therapy, and investors see and opportunityBy 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 funnyHope and optimism often blossom in the experts toiling in the gloomy fields of global warming,COVID-19 and Alzheimer’s disease.
Read More How climate scientists keep hope alive as damage worsensHere are some signs to look for and ways to start the conversation.
Read More Talking about anxiety and depression with older loved ones can be hard. Here's how to start.By 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 presidentA child psychologist discusses the tell-tale signs of overparenting.
Read More Are you overparenting?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 listenersAfter 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 ProblemNew 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 pandemicThe different factors that affect communities of color limiting access to proper health care are explained.
Read More Clinical psychologist breaks down racial, health disparitiesGuns 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.
Read More Seeing good people do bad things makes the world feel like a more confusing placeEmploying strategies to help communicate may ease some worries.
Read More What is my loved one with dementia feeling?An NIMH-supported study shows that incorporating a multistage screening process for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) into federally funded early intervention services may reduce disparities in early ASD diagnosis.
Read More Multistage Autism Screening in Early Intervention Settings May Reduce DisparitiesBy Emma Young. Finding suggests link between Dark Triad and misconduct could be broken if students are encouraged to take responsibility for their own learning.
Read More Students with Dark Triad traits don’t feel responsible for their own learning, making them more likely to cheatBy Emily Reynolds. People with different educational backgrounds have different reasons for preferring more educated candidates
Read More We tend to prefer political candidates with higher levels of education — here’s whyIt is time to take stock of friendships, weighing who matters, what is missing and how to build your A-team.
Read More Do you have a strong circle of friends?Risk of breakthrough cases in those with psychiatric disorders comparable to those with certain physical conditions.
Read More Mental health issues may lead to higher risk for COVID-19 breakthrough casesOCD is often not taken as seriously by the public as it should be.
Read More OCD isn’t just about being a neat freak. And for those with it, this next stage of the pandemic may be hardNarcissistic traits often go unnoticed or are ignored, particularly from people who don’t know about narcissism or have other vulnerabilities such as low self-esteem.
Read More Narcissists share these 5 toxic money habitsNick Gaiano, Ph.D., will focus on how to prepare and submit grant applications to the National Institutes of Health.
Read More Center for Global Mental Health Research Webinar Series: Submission and Peer Review of NIH Grant Applications