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Practicing Gratitude Could Help You Live Longer
Appreciating the little things in life can leave a lasting impact on your health. ... “It’s not completely surprising to me, just given what we know on the health benefits of positive emotions more generally, that a person’s disposition for gratitude might actually even lengthen their life,” said Dr. Philip Watkins, a professor of psychology at Eastern Washington University and author of the book “Gratitude and the Good Life: Toward a Psychology of Appreciation.” Research has found that gratitude benefits individuals’ happiness and flourishing, added Watkins, who was not involved with the new study.
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More Effective Policymaking Keeps the Audience in Mind. Here’s the Science Behind Storytelling
Stories may complement established policy tools. Walsh and colleagues define the elements of storytelling and discuss stories’ key features and functions, providing design principles for policymakers interested in building stories.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on climate change and substance-use behaviors, using reality checks to assess heterogeneity, using an ethics and social-justice approach to collecting and using demographic data, and much more.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on understanding how people attribute inequality, differences in visuospatial perspective taking, global diversity across psychological science, reasoning, altruism, racism, religion, and much more.
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APS Global Collaboration on COVID-19
When can psychological science be useful in educational policy and practice? Register for the virtual panel on July 21, 2022 at 2:00 ET for the discussion on the intersection between college admissions processes and COVID-19!
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Dispatches from Social and Behavioral Scientists on COVID
Watch this series of short videos from SAGE Publishing on how the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic impacted how social and behavioral scientists view and conduct research.
