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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring: distress, worry, and responses to the Ebola crisis; anxiety-linked attentional bias and mitigation of threat; and neural underpinnings of repetitive negative thinking in autism spectrum disorders.
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Mean Bosses Make Themselves Miserable, Too
Powerful people who engaged in abusive behavior directed at employees paid the price later with lowered well-being.
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Flourishing Professors and Staff Retention
The academic environment in South Africa has recently undergone significant restructuring, leading to problems with staff morale and difficulties retaining talented academic staff. Staff retention is necessary in order for academic institutions to meet their
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Fostering Motivation Could Help Keep Marginalized Girls in School
A field study in Malawi indicates that psychological factors play an important role in whether girls attended school, even under conditions of extreme poverty and deprivation
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National Research Conference on Early Childhood
The Administration for Children and Families’ National Research Conference on Early Childhood (NRCEC) will be held June 25–27, 2018, in Arlington, Virginia, at the Marriott Crystal Gateway. For more information, please click here.
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Personality May Change When You Drink, But Less Than You Think
People typically report substantive changes to their personality when they become intoxicated, but observations from outsiders suggest differences between ‘sober’ and ‘drunk’ personalities are less drastic.