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Why the Teenage Brain Pushes Young People to Ignore Virus Restrictions
Monica Sager didn’t see her boyfriend for four months after she moved back into her childhood home in Pottstown, Pa., in March. She also didn’t go to any friends’ houses or social events. Now, her parameters have started to shift. Her boyfriend visited from New York over the Fourth of July weekend, and in August she will move into an apartment with roommates in Worcester, Mass., when she returns for her senior year at Clark University. Ms. Sager, 21, knows that social distancing is key to keeping Covid-19 from spreading. And she’s been talking with her roommates about how they can entertain responsibly. But she can’t ignore her need to be around friends. “I’m getting antsy.
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28 Questions That Reveal Whether Someone Has A ‘Dark Personality’
Psychologists have long been interested in understanding the personality traits that promote socially unwelcome or offensive behavior. One of the more well-known constellations of negative personality traits is known as the “Dark Triad.” According to researchers, the Dark Triad is composed of three groups of socially offensive personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy (defined below).
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How Our Strengths Shape Our Trading Psychology
In this article, we will learn about our personal strengths and how those shape our development as participants in financial markets. Years of working with portfolio managers and traders have taught me that the greatest performers are not those without weaknesses, but those who maximize distinctive cognitive and personality strengths. But what are our strengths, and how can we maximize them? A particularly innovative approach to the assessment of our capacities comes from the research of Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman.
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UArizona Psychologist Explains How COVID-19 is Creating Widespread ‘Pandemic Fatigue’
HOW COVID-19 IS CREATING WIDESPREAD 'PANDEMIC FATIGUE' — It is a phrase that puts the stress, anxiety, and depression many people are feeling right now into perspective: pandemic fatigue. Experts are concerned that the next wave of illness will be a one centered on mental health and brought on by the wide variety of concerns over COVID-19. "We're going through and we're experiencing something that none of us have experienced in our lifetimes," said UArizona Professor and Clinical Psychologist David Sbarra.
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How Leaders Can Encourage Post-Traumatic Growth
Though the Chinese calendar says it’s the Year of The Rat, a large segment of the world may look back on 2020 as the Year of The Trauma. If you’re not touched in some way by unemployment, death of a loved one, anxiety, depression, financial wounds, or losing your mind in quarantine—congratulations. You just skateboarded through a hurricane without getting wet. For the rest of us, there’s going to be a lot to process. And if we do that, it will be a good thing. Because that word—process—is the act that makes the difference between PTSD and its nobler cousin, Post-Traumatic Growth.
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Crises Like The Pandemic Don’t Make People Less Optimistic
One of the most startling things about people is the way they always think things are going to get better. It doesn’t matter how ugly things get, humans are incurable optimists. And the older people get, the more positive they feel about the future. That’s why the elderly are actually kicking our behinds when it comes to handling the coronavirus pandemic. When ChumbaWamba sang these words, they expressed something fundamental about human nature, “I get knocked down, but I get up again. You’re never gonna keep me down.” Recent research has been chock full of studies showing just how resilient we really are.
