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NIMH Novel Target Discovery and Psychosocial Intervention Development Workshop
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Division of Translational Research is hosting a workshop on the topic of novel target discovery and psychosocial intervention development. The workshop will be held February 24 to February
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Self-Objectified Women Express the Same Support for Social Activism
Women who report high levels of self-objectification are no more or less willing to engage in social activism than those who do not.
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The Secret to Dealing With Cynics at Work
In a management training that my company sent me to a few years back, I was introduced to a new concept: “cynical terrorists.” This category was meant to describe the kind of person who assumes the worst of everyone, shoots down every new idea, and generally drenches their environment in negativity with the volatile energy of a broken sprinkler system. Cynical terrorists, our coach explained, are highly engaged at their workplace, but in a destructive way. This makes them very powerful and very scary. I picture the Joker in a J. Crew button-down shirt, sowing chaos for the hell of it. ...
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New Research Finds Text Messages Can Help Predict Suicide Attempts
New research at UVA suggests that language used in text messages may one day help clinicians predict an increased risk of a suicide attempt in real time.
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The Outsize Influence of Your Middle-School Friends
No wonder, then, that researchers studying a phenomenon known as social buffering found some puzzling results when they studied teenagers. Social buffering is a way of describing the protective, positive effect of one individual on another. It describes the power of one person to reduce another’s stress. ... But how does that response change as kids grow older? That’s what the neuroscientist Dylan Gee, now at Yale University, wanted to know. She studies how brain circuits mature, and has found that puberty is a turning point for dealing with stress.
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Linguistic Similarities Build Friendships and Echo Chambers
Friends influence one another’s linguistic styles over time, contributing to the relational “echo chambers” common on social media and in society as a whole.
