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Gender-Affirming Health Care Should Be a Right, Not a Crime
APS Fellow/Author: Kristina R. Olson In late March, the Arkansas State House and Senate voted to prohibit health care workers in the state from providing gender-affirming health care to transgender and other gender-diverse young people.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on children’s susceptibility to trust strangers, prosocial behaviors in adolescents, temporal structure in memory, memory accuracy for real-world events, effort and pupillometric investigation, personality changes and career, and a neurobiological examination of delayed judgments of learning.
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Coronavirus Turmoil Raises Depression Risks in Young Adults
“A number of kids are expressing that these are supposed to be the best years—high school and college—the most free years,” says Anne Marie Albano, a professor of medical psychology in psychiatry at Columbia University
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How to Talk to Your Children About Protests and Racism
As cities and social media explode with anger over the killing of yet another black man at the hands of police, worried parents struggle with how to protect their children from seeing the worst of
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Loss, Grief, Stress: How The Pandemic Is Affecting Kids
NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro and education correspondent Cory Turner talk with child psychologist Abigail Gewirtz about the impact of the pandemic on kid’s mental health and development. … GARCIA-NAVARRO: Abigail, let’s start with the research. What
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New Research: How Much Screen Time Is Bad for Kids?
Sitting in front of a screen is bad for you. Then it’s good for you. Then it’s bad for you again. But, like, only a bit. Allow me to explain. … This is exactly the
