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Pitch Perfect: Exploring Black Women’s Emotional Coping Strategies
Okie Nwakanma received first prize for her upcoming research on how Black women use emotional-approach coping to deal with gendered racism.
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Why We Laugh at the Most Inappropriate Times and What It Says About Us
Laughter is best described as a physiological response to humor. In fact, humans can giggle as early as three months old. The fact that laughter kicks in before babies can even speak shows us the importance it plays
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How to Prepare for a Disaster, Emotionally and Mentally
IT WAS AUGUST 2020 and the United States had just surpassed its 5 millionth reported Covid-19 case. Meanwhile, hundreds of fires raged across my home state of California, incinerating small towns. Local news toggled between maps with red blotches indicating
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Why This Stage of the Pandemic Makes Us So Anxious
With the threat from the delta variant bearing down across the United States, it’s almost hard to remember the heady days earlier this summer when many of us were experiencing relief, joy, even euphoria as
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on personality and arts education, neuroscience, inner-experiences, emotions, moral judgments, dual- and single-process models, biases holding back theorizing in psychological science, and habits and goals.
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Second Best in the World, but Still Saying Sorry
Kenichiro Fumita was crying so hard that he could barely get the words out. “I wanted to return my gratitude to the concerned people and volunteers who are running the Olympics during this difficult time,”
