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Understanding and Promoting Mental Health – Insights From Psychological Science
Thanks to advances in many areas of psychological science, from addiction to zoophobia, scientists can evaluate existing treatments for mental health issues, design new and better approaches to intervention, and discover which biological factors promote mental health. Scientists will discuss the current state and future questions in clinical psychological science at the Association for Psychological Science’s 24th annual meeting in Chicago, May 24-27, 2012. News Items Facial Behavior in Diverse Contexts: Emotion, Deception, and Psychopathology What’s in a face?
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This Is Your Mind on Music – Insights From Psychological Science
Music is just sound - structured, organized sound. Yet it has surrounded us, moved us, and echoed in our memories throughout the history of our species. Three of the world's leading psychologists and neuroscientists in the study of music, and one of the world's leading musicians, will discuss the psychological systems and "orchestra of brain regions" through which music enriches our lives at the Association for Psychological Science’s 24th annual meeting in Chicago, May 24-27, 2012. Why Our Minds Groove to a Beat Whether it’s reggaeton, house, salsa, or bluegrass, one thing is clear: people love moving to the beat of music.
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Black Women Leaders Approved for Assertiveness in the Workplace
While black men and white women are often jeered for being assertive and aggressive leaders, black women are expected to adopt dominant leadership styles usually associated with white men.
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Reminders of Secular Authority Reduce Believers’ Distrust of Atheists
What’s the group that least agrees with Americans’ vision of their country? It’s not Muslims, gays, feminists, or recent immigrants. It’s atheists, according to many sociological surveys. In one survey conducted in 2006 by sociologist Penny Edgell and her colleagues, nearly half of respondents said they would disapprove if their child wanted to marry an atheist, and a majority would not vote for an atheist president of their preferred political party, the lowest social acceptance rates of any group that Americans are asked about.
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Association for Psychological Science, SAGE Launch Clinical Psychological Science
Association for Psychological Science’s new journal opens new field of science WASHINGTON (April 23, 2012) – The Association for Psychological Science and SAGE announce the launch of Clinical Psychological Science, a new peer-reviewed journal focused on publishing advances in clinical science and providing a venue for cutting-edge research across a wide range of conceptual views, approaches, and topics. This is the APS’s fifth scholarly journal, joining Psychological Science, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, and Perspectives on Psychological Science.
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Niceness Is at Least Partly in the Genes
What makes some people give blood and bake casseroles for their neighbors, while others mutter about taxes from behind closed blinds? A new paper published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science finds that part of the answer—but not all—may be in their genes. The hormones oxytocin and vasopressin are thought to affect how people behave toward each other. For example, lab tests have found that people play nicer in economic games after having oxytocin squirted up their nose. “This is an attempt to take this into the real world a little bit,” says Michael Poulin, of the University at Buffalo.
