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Linking Personality with Organizations, Occupations, and Income
Two recent studies highlight how personality and occupations intertwine.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring: distrust and borderline personality disorder; desistance of alcohol use disorder over the lifespan; reappraisal, cognitive control, and emotion; and rumination in psychopathology.
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Understanding Mental Disorder through a Scientific Lens
A team of clinical scientists takes an in-depth look at three systems used for understanding mental-health disorders.
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Workers Pursuing a ‘Calling’ Face a Double-Edged Sword
While those with a calling may be more engaged in professional development, they show less flexibility and struggle to find a job that meets their ideals.
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Why sexual harassment training doesn’t stop harassment
Shannon Rawski first got the idea for her dissertation after listening to her former colleagues — business school professors who study human resources and recognize sexual harassment as a problem — complain about having to attend, well, sexual harassment training. “My university announced they needed to have it because they hadn’t in three years, and the buzz in the hallway was ‘Why do I have to go to this? This is a waste of my time,’ ” says Rawski, now an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh.
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Can Science Explain The Human Mind?
In The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce describes the mind as "a mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain," engaged in a futile attempt to understand itself "with nothing but itself to know itself with." Questions about the limits of self-understanding have persisted long after Bierce's 1911 publication. One user on Quora asks: "Is the human brain intelligent enough to fully understand itself?" A satirical headline at The Onion reports that psychology has come to a halt as "weary researchers say the mind cannot possibly study itself." ... Psychology PhD student Sara Gottlieb and I decided to find out.