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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on interventions to address anxiety, models of diagnosis, sensitivity to rewards, the association between gambling disorder and suicide, suicidal behavior and borderline personality disorder, parenting during COVID-19, and stress in healthcare workers during COVID-19.
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Internships (Paid Ones!), Passions, and Other Keys to a Successful Career Leap
How does a psychologist with little or no nonacademic experience position themselves to compete in a very different job market? Learn from these trailblazers.
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Black Employees Will Thrive With Remote Work — It’s Anti-Racist
It is 4 p.m. on a Monday and I am on a walk. I am also on the clock. Last Friday, I received a calendar invite for a meeting to discuss my workplace’s ongoing efforts toward anti-racism. The notification made my heart skip a beat. I am a junior faculty member at an elite university, and one of only two Black tenure-track faculty members at my school. I could expect 90 minutes on the school’s sluggish pace toward diversifying the faculty, student body and curriculum, with my mostly-white colleagues occasionally stealing glances to gauge my reaction. Could I skip the meeting? No — my absence would be noted. Thank goodness for remote work.
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Yale’s Happiness Professor Says Anxiety Is Destroying Her Students
Since the Yale cognitive scientist Laurie Santos began teaching her class Psychology and the Good Life in 2018, it has become one of the school’s most popular courses. The first year the class was offered, nearly a quarter of the undergraduate student body enrolled. You could see that as a positive: all these young high-achievers looking to learn scientifically corroborated techniques for living a happier life. But you could also see something melancholy in the course’s popularity: all these young high-achievers looking for something they’ve lost, or never found.
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Freedom Versus Security: Can We Find the Right Balance?
A paper published in Perspectives on Psychological Science suggests that restricting freedoms may have unintended negative consequences for behavior and health, but psychological science may help strike a balance.
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Is Your Identity a Concern? Smartphone App Usage Alone May Give It Away
The amount of time you spend each day using different smartphone apps may be enough to reveal your identity, according to new research published in the journal Psychological Science.
