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Young Children’s Self-Control and the Health and Wealth of Their Nation
Longitudinal data collected from thousands of participants from New Zealand and the United Kingdom show that childhood measures of self-discipline predict everything from personal income to the pace of physiological aging in adulthood, APS Fellow
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How to stay happy after the vacation is over
CNN: The sad thing about vacations is that they end. However much fun you’re having at the beach or carving down a ski mountain or at your sustainable carbon-neutral ecolodge in the rainforest, the specter
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Teenagers Who Don’t Get Enough Sleep at Higher Risk for Mental Health Problems
Scientific American: Many studies have examined the effects of sufficient versus insufficient sleep on mental health. A new study, published in February in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, takes a more nuanced look, attempting
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Here’s the Best Way to Make Your Exercise Habit Stick
TIME: It’s not always easy to convince yourself to exercise after a long day of work. (Ok, it’s never easy.) But people who consistently manage to do it may be using a simple trick—whether they
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How to Maximize Your Vacation Happiness
New York Magazine: The sad thing about vacations is that they end. However much fun you’re having at the beach or carving down a ski mountain or at your sustainable carbon-neutral ecolodge in the rainforest
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The Work We Do While We Sleep
The New Yorker: It’s strange, when you think about it, that we spend close to a third of our lives asleep. Why do we do it? While we’re sleeping, we’re vulnerable—and, at least on the
