The Scientific Underpinnings and Impacts of Shame
People who feel shame readily are at risk for depression and anxiety disorders
People who feel shame readily are at risk for depression and anxiety disorders
Honor your right to disconnect and focus on strengthening real relationships
Researchers examine the old adage that birth order plays a significant role in shaping who we are
Honest, involuntary laughter cued people to laugh more at some really bad jokes than they did when hearing forced laughter.
“Learning loop,” an innovative way employees can pick up new skills, is a good example
How social media can rebuild our empathy—and why it must
A Web site called OncoBites offers short, easy-to-understand reports on what’s new in the field
Performance anxiety makes us second-guess everything from how to shoot a free throw to what to say next in an interview
For those stifled by shades of perfectionism, temporary media can remind us how to create things for the fun of it
A practical guide to putting things in perspective
Psychologists launch a clinical trial to gauge whether virtual reality can quell the fears of patients with the mental disorder
Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen covers five of the most common faces of depression
Babies as young as a year and a half want leaders to fix situations in which they see someone else being treated unfairly.
I struggled with a terrible loss, and it made me realize that our field must do better
The author of Superior: The Return of Race Science knows this from firsthand experience
The data points we choose to focus on determine how we see the world
The code of toxic masculinity requires that men are dominant over everyone else, have no needs, show no emotion and are always #winning
Research shows it’s not helping, but solutions do exist
Because sometimes tools designed to help us assess performance and potential just don’t
The result is not the final word, as findings will likely turn up the heat on questions of divergent sexual arousal
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