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10 Ways to Keep Your Mind Healthy in 2025
Are you feeling mentally ready for 2025? ... Distancing yourself from your thoughts is also useful. Ethan Kross, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, has found that when people use the word “you” or their own name in internal dialogue instead of saying “I,” it feels more constructive and positive. So instead of saying: “I cannot believe I made that mistake. It was so stupid of me,” consider saying this: “You made a mistake. But your mistake is something that has happened to a lot of other people, too, and you won’t feel badly about it forever.”
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June Gruber Welcomes Research with Societal Impact as New Editor of Current Directions in Psychological Science
Gruber plans to highlight a diversity of scientists and global discoveries in her new role.
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Psychologist Explains Why We Love Holiday, Feel-Good Movies
Dr. Pamela Rutledge, Director of the Media Psychology Research Center, discusses why people love predictable, feel-good holiday movies.
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Wikipedia Searches Reveal Differing Styles of Curiosity
The website Wikipedia describes curiosity as a “quality related to inquisitive thinking, such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident in humans and other animals.” But there is a lot more to this prime motivator for so much of human behavior—and Wikipedia, as the world’s largest encyclopedia, is now helping social scientists deepen the definition of curiosity. ... Princeton University psychologist Erik Nook praised the study’s “dazzlingly large” scope.
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Building Bridges: Exploring Cooperation in Children
Podcast: In this episode, we speak with Patricia Kanngiesser from the University of Plymouth about how children learn to navigate teamwork.
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For Young Adults, Caregiving Isn’t Just Hard. It Can Shape You for Life
They're young and in love. But she's sick, and he's her caregiver, and that means nothing else comes easy. ... At this age, people typically explore new beliefs, relationships and friendships. It's when you become the author of your own life story, as psychologist Dan McAdams puts it. But when caregiving takes up all the bandwidth, school, work, social and other identities fade away. It's hard for anyone, but because young people's identities are still under development, they may be particularly prone to what psychologists call role engulfment: One facet of your life becomes the only thing you think about, the only self you recognize.
