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In a bid to improve health and wellbeing, social prescriptions can cover everything from volunteering and art classes to support with household bills. But do they really work? … Perhaps counterintuitively, prescribing “service” is proving to be one particularly effective form. Early studies have shown that those in nursing homes who are given choices and responsibilities […]

The teens are on Instagram. That much is obvious. A majority of teens say they use the app, including 8 percent who say they use it “almost constantly,” according to the Pew Research Center. And yet a lot is still unknown about what such extensive use might do to kids. Many people believe that it and

In this episode, APS’s Özge Gürcanlı Fischer Baum discusses culturally sensitive and inclusive treatments with experts William Stoops from the University of Kentucky Medical Center, along with his colleagues Jardin Dogan-Dixon and Danelle Stevens-Watkins from the University of Kentucky, Paris Wheeler from the University of Cincinnati, and Krystal Cunningham from Boston College.   Together, they

Researchers are only beginning to understand why some people embrace retirement while others won’t even consider it. … Yet “the reality is that retirement can be a very challenging time,” said Teresa Amabile, a psychologist at Harvard Business School and a co-author of the forthcoming book “Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You.” After

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If you look around at your friends and family — and even at yourself — it is apparent that some people perceive the glass to be half full, while others view it as half empty. “Some people are just happier than others. They don’t have to work at it, right? They just are,” social psychologist

Our pets do experience sadness when we leave them, but there are things you can do to help them adjust. … “Dogs do experience fundamental emotions like happiness and sadness,” said Clive Wynne, professor of psychology at Arizona State University and director of the Canine Science Collaboratory. Wynne is the author of “Dog is Love:

2024 Student Research Award | 2024 RISE Research Award | 2024 Emerging Scholar Award With each APS Annual Convention since 1991, hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as psychological scientists across all levels and expertise, have the chance to present their research and make connections with their colleagues. Of the 2,000 posters submitted to this year’s Convention,

Social media is rife with groups dedicated to sharing so-called “shower thoughts.” … The proper balance between engagement and disengagement is turbocharged in the shower. John Kounios, professor of psychology at Drexel University and co-author of the book The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain, thinks he knows why. In the shower we

In recent decades, mental health providers began screening for “adverse childhood experiences” — generally defined as abuse, neglect, violence, family dissolution and poverty — as risk factors for later disorders. … Shigehiro Oishi, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and the author of a 2010 study on the long-term effects of frequent