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The Grieving Brain
Renowned grief expert, neuroscientist, and psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and learning.
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Think You Can Be Anything You Want to Be? Science Says No–Unless You Want to Be an Entrepreneur
My best friend growing up rolled a 160 the first time we went bowling. He had never hit a tennis ball, but on a whim he borrowed a kid's racket, entered a youth tournament, and won. He went on to be all-state in baseball and basketball, and played minor league ball until a shoulder injury ended his career. I worked hard to be as good. Way harder than he did; sure, he played, but he never practiced. Yet no matter how hard I tried, I never came anywhere close to his level in any athletic or physical pursuit. I realized early on that people who said "You can be anything you want to be" didn't know what they were talking about.
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The Metaverse’s Effects on Mental Health: Trivial or Troubling?
Is the metaverse good or bad news for our mental health? Silicon Valley’s focus on creating an immersive virtual world where our avatars shop, socialize and work has psychologists and other experts considering what effects it will have on our well-being. Technology companies including Nvidia Corp. , Epic Games Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc., formerly Facebook, are rushing to create their own worlds or the digital bricks needed to enable them.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on person perception, heritability of intelligence, values in psychometrics, race conversations in U.S. families, risk, how to study relationships and health, and scientific progress in psychological science.
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The Choices We Make May Be Random
Humans sometimes justify their choices after the fact. The line of reasoning goes something like this: “I chose this, so I must like it. I didn't choose this other thing, so it must not be so good.” In fact, decades of cognitive science research and centuries of philosophical and scientific postulations suggest that humans unconsciously decide to like (or dislike) something based on previously made choices. But Lisa Feigenson, a co-director of the Johns Hopkins University Laboratory for Child Development, wanted to understand the roots of this tendency.
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How to Make Your Financial Life Happier in 2022
Instead of setting an ambitious money goal in the new year, consider some smaller and more cerebral ways to make your financial life happier. This approach is likely to be especially helpful in 2022, after two years in which many have been under financial and other sources of strain. According to an online survey that the personal-finance site NextAdvisor conducted of nearly 3,000 adults in June, over half said they felt very or somewhat anxious about their finances.
