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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.
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How You Attach to People May Explain a Lot About Your Inner Life
In 2006, a team of Norwegian researchers set out to study how experienced psychotherapists help people to change. Led by Michael Rønnestad, a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Oslo, the team followed 50 therapist-patient pairs, tracking, in minute detail, what the therapists did that made them so effective. Margrethe Halvorsen, a post-doc at the time, was given the job of interviewing the patients at the end of the treatment. ...
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A Neuroscientist Lays Out the Keys to Aging Well
As a neuroscientist, professor emeritus of psychology, musician and best-selling author, Daniel Levitin has extensively studied the brain and its impact on aging. His latest book, "Successful Aging," explores the questions: what happens in the brain as we age and what are the keys to aging well? NewsHour Weekend's Christopher Booker recently spoke to Levitin to learn more. ... You set out to write this book, you said it was because you had questions of your own. What questions were you looking to answer? Daniel Levitin: I looked at people like my parents who are in their 80s and very active and engaged. They they tire me out.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on language style and social networks, the cultural differences that affect the relationship between aging and well-being, and how infant and adult brains interact while they communicate.
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Column: Why We Need to Redefine ‘Full Time’ Work
In 1926, the titan of U.S. industry Henry Ford single-handedly scaled back his full-time employee’s workweek from forty-eight to forty hours. In justifying his decision, he claimed “It is high time to rid ourselves of the notion that leisure for workmen is either lost time or a class privilege.” The result was a vast improvement in worker productivity and company profits. In 1940, Congress made the five-day, 40-hour workweek the law of the land by amending the Fair Labor Standards Act. Yet over time, the number of hours worked by American full-time employees has lengthened considerably.
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Why William and Kate Are a ‘Fairy Tale’ but Harry and Meghan Are ‘Couple Goals’
The phrase fairy tale always seems to hover in the air whenever a marriage takes place within the English monarchy. And indeed, the three most high-profile royal weddings in modern history—those of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer, Prince William and Kate Middleton, and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle—have all involved the classic fairy-tale story line of a prince sweeping a young, beautiful woman off her feet into the luxury and high status of royal life. Prince Charles and Diana did not go on to live happily ever after, but from the outside at least, Prince William and Kate appear to be doing something akin to that.
