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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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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on moral concerns and emotional responses, how children use probability to infer happiness, and implicit gender bias in descriptions of expected elections results.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on disgust theory in psychiatric medicine, affect during depression treatment, the role of perspective shifting in empathy toward others and the self, individual differences in personality disorders, and decision making processes in substance use disorders.
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3 Ways to Build Coaching Into Your Career and Why it Matters
Many people are aware of the benefits of coaching, having had the opportunity to be coached themselves, or have friends or colleagues who have. What’s discussed less is the benefits of coaching for the coach. Here, we have a look at why it’s worth building coaching others into your career—particularly if you lead others, or aspire to – and three practical ways to go about it. “Power stress” is a term that resonates with many of my clients.
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How Can We Create a Workforce Full of Lifelong Learners?
We all agree that the world we work in today is so different from the world that was when our current learning systems were designed. Everything around us—our workplaces, our workforce, and entire industries. And learning—continuous, lifelong learning—is a bare essential for us to keep up. The people who will flourish in this new world are those who can a) learn to learn, b) learn to unlearn, and c) learn to relearn. Yet, in a recent global survey of 1,000 business leaders, conducted by Infosys Knowledge Institute, these skills received short shrift. Respondents were far more likely to list teamwork, leadership, and communication when asked which skills they considered to be important now.
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Panicking About Your Kids’ Phones? New Research Says Don’t
It has become common wisdom that too much time spent on smartphones and social media is responsible for a recent spike in anxiety, depression and other mental health problems, especially among teenagers. But a growing number of academic researchers have produced studies that suggest the common wisdom is wrong. ... “There doesn’t seem to be an evidence base that would explain the level of panic and consternation around these issues,” said Candice L. Odgers, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, and the lead author of the paper, which was published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
