When we regret our past, it can feel like we’re incapable of changing our future. But it may be our past “mistakes” that help us realize there is room to evolve. In the finale episode of How to Start Over, we explore how regret can be a catalyst of change, what holds us back from …
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Does success make us miserable? Sigmund Freud was one of the first to propose this peculiar form of distress in an essay he published more than a century ago. It was a theory built around a few case studies: a patient who fell into depression after earning a promotion at work, another patient who fell …
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The annual funding cycle for the U.S. government is underway. The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee advanced appropriations funding bills and accompanying reports that include support for behavioral science. Approved bills include the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (Labor-HHS) bill, which funds the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as the …
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Depression can be tricky to treat. Not only do people respond to interventions differently depending on the cause and severity of their depression, but even when a treatment successfully alleviates a patient’s symptoms, the condition is likely to reoccur in the years to come, according to recent research by Zachary D. Cohen (University of California, …
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PSPI Live is a series of 60-minute live events highlighting recent or upcoming articles published in the APS journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest (PSPI). Speakers include the authors, policymakers, or representatives of important stakeholder groups. Chronic pain has broad negative consequences beyond causing physical suffering. It also affects well-being, emotional functioning, and overall …
Ukrainians are trying to confront the war’s psychological wounds even as the battles wear on. … Kate Pokrovskaya, a 39-year-old psychotherapist, was asleep at her home in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 24 when she and her husband were awakened by the sound of explosions. Russia had launched its invasion. “At that moment, our life stopped,” …
When you’re admired and well known, “people are always nice to you,” the actor Robert De Niro once confessed to Esquire magazine. “You’re in a conversation, and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying.” Sounds great! Agreement makes life smooth, and the praise and esteem of others gives us pleasure, even stimulating a reward center in …
We’ve all heard the saying, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” But is there any truth to this idea? This week, we explore the concept of post-traumatic growth with psychologist Eranda Jayawickreme. He finds that suffering can have benefits — but not necessarily the ones we expect. …
The eight recipients of the 2022 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions are recognized for their groundbreaking work across diverse areas of psychological science. In recent months, each of them sat down with APS’s Charles Blue for a lively conversation on Under the Cortex, the APS podcast. The Spence Award recognizes APS …