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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on how children become aware of inequalities, how cognitive science can improve mathematics learning, the role of general cognitive skills in language processing, the rejection of science, how to improve eyewitness-identification evidence, and the links between stress and depression.
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Grin and Bear It: A Smile or Grimace May Reduce Needle Injection Pain, UC Irvine Researcher Shows
UC Irvine has good news for the 50 million Americans who are afraid of needles. In a recently published paper, UC Irvine researchers found that simply smiling or grimacing can significantly reduce pain from needle
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on the effect of smartphone use on academic performance, memory for stressful events, posture and Stroop effect, immunity and cognition, number perception, decisions in loss and gain domains, the protective effect of positivity on memory decline.
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Teaching: How We Learn to Write / Adversity and Rumination
“How Do We Learn to Write?” by Cindi May and Michael Scullin; “The Toxic Stress Stew: Adversity + Reactivity + Rumination + Time” by David G. Myers
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on attentional control and chronic pain, reward processing and externalizing psychopathology, women with generalized anxiety disorder, trajectories of distress after a disaster, ruminative inertia and depression.
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on the role of situation in psychological science, neuroscience and moral behavior, learning to write, stress, and the role of emotions on attention and work performance.