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Homework Therapists’ Job: Help Solve Math Problems, and Emotional Ones
On a recent Sunday, Bari Hillman, who works during the week as a clinical psychologist at a New York mental health clinic, was perched at a clear, plastic desk inside a 16-year-old’s Manhattan bedroom, her
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In a Fight Against Depression, UCLA Relies on Technology
In what amounts to a research moonshot, the University of California at Los Angeles aims to “cut the burden of depression in half” by 2050 and to eliminate it by the end of the century.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring criterion thresholds, nonsuicidal self-injury, the network stability of anxiety and depression, replicability of PTSD networks, and interpretation biases in depression and social anxiety.
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Funeral after funeral, an emotional marathon for survivors of the Parkland school shooting
Under vacation-blue Florida skies, the young mourners have emerged from family SUVs and minivans at funeral after funeral, high school girls in black dresses and heels and teen boys in black shirts and pants. “This
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Emotions in Context: What We Know About How We Feel
Data from around the world show few differences in people’s day-to-day emotional experiences, but distinct cultural differences in the feelings they find most desirable, APS Fellow Jeanne Tsai has found. Tsai is among psychological scientists across the globe who are charting the depths of emotion research.
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Why the UK Just Appointed a Minister for Loneliness
There’s a new minister in the United Kingdom, and the position’s theme song might as well be The Beatles’ hit song “Eleanor Rigby,” which implores the public to “look at all the lonely people.” More
