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How ‘Ghosting’ Is Linked to Mental Health
Check your phone. Are there any unanswered texts, snaps or direct messages that you’re ignoring? Should you reply? Or should you “ghost” the person who sent them? Ghosting happens when someone cuts off all online communication with someone else without an explanation. Instead, like a ghost, they just vanish. The phenomenon is common on social media and dating sites, but with the isolation brought on by the pandemic — forcing more people together online — it happens now more than ever. I am a professor of psychology who studies the role of technology use in interpersonal relationships and well-being.
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Me, My Job, and AI: Preserving Worker Identity Amid Technological Change
How artificial intelligence is functionally deployed in the workplace impacts whether workers feel threatened by it or embrace it.
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SAGE 10-Year Impact Awards Honor Two APS Articles
Two 2011 APS journal articles exploring the rise of Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and the risk of accepting false-positive findings have received SAGE Publishing’s third annual 10-Year Impact Awards.
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Feelings of Belonging May Indicate Students’ Risk of Depression
Depression may be more closely related to how we perceive our relationships and position within a community than to whether or not we are socializing with others.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on psychologists with lived experience of psychopathology, resilience to stressors, the evolutionary value of warmth, and biases and validity in graduate-school admissions.
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New Research Examines the Reluctance We Feel Before Offering Support to Someone in Need
A new study published in Psychological Science urges us not to think twice about offering support or condolences to a friend or acquaintance in need. The study suggests that we have a tendency to underestimate how positively recipients respond to our expressions of support. ...