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How To Calm Quarantine Frustrations While Remote Working
The types of news outlets, TV shows, movies, magazines, and newspapers we consume on a regular basis frame our perspective and impact our mental health and well-being. Long-standing research shows that chronic TV watchers and news followers have elevated fears because the events they observe start to seem as if they are happening outside their front door. And once we consume too much chronic, negative, and catastrophic information, we can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube. It stays in our minds, forming a template for how we think, feel, and respond to seismic events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, scientists have found an antidote: watching nature documentaries. ...
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Peer Pressure, Public Messaging Will Affect Behaviour When Rules Loosen: Experts
Peer pressure and public messaging will influence Canadians’ ability and willingness to maintain safe behaviours as restrictions around COVID-19 begin to loosen, some experts say as they warn fines and snitch lines may not be effective as long-term solutions. The pandemic that has caused thousands of deaths across the country has also forced people from all walks of life to radically alter their behaviour in a matter of weeks. Those new habits will be tweaked and tested in the coming months as businesses and public spaces gradually reopen, with officials stressing the need to keep up precautions such as physical distancing.
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Psychologist: ‘Each Person is Suffering in Their Own Way’
Video interview with APS Member Angela Duckworth Angela Duckworth, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, tells Ali Velshi and Dr. Zeke Emanuel that stress and anxiety related to COVID-19 are normal, but they are much worse "if you feel you are in it by yourself.” ... Watch full interview at link below.
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NSF Introduces New Vision 2030 Framework
The National Science Board (NSB) has issued a new report, called “Vision 2030,” which lays out a path forward for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and for the US science enterprise.
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Your Loss, My Gain? Sharing Economy May Widen Wealth Gap
“Contract trading”—in which contract pricing replaces traditional wage setting—lowers freelance contractors’ perceived value and actual earnings alike, even when their actual work product is identical to that of a traditional employee.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on machine learning and measurement errors, executive function development, negative academic experiences, colorism in Asia, a meta-analytic investigation about the HEXACO model of personality, the use of tools and the human mind, and birthing consciousness as an altered state of consciousness.
