I am sure many of us have stories of young children saying words that they should not be repeating at their age. And I am sure many of these stories make us smile. When my brother was about two-years-old he was playing with his Hot Wheels cars on the f …
Emotion regulation is generally thought to be a good thing. However, there can be costs for excessive emotion regulation. This article addresses the negative consequences of emotion regulation and how vulnerable individuals and marginalized communities may be especially susceptible to these effects.
Racial discrimination can negatively impact one’s health, and research is still uncovering the ways by which it does so. This article focuses on the process by which discrimination can produce more stress for individuals and impact their social relationships.
The term neurodiversity refers to a growing movement that views differences in people’s neurology as providing them with valuable diversity and skills opposed to viewing their neurological differences as a disease or disorder that requires treatment. In this article, we list 5 things you should know about neurodiversity.
What do psychological studies on masculinity tell us about the social pressures that lead to “toxic masculinity”? This article summarizes information from the recently released APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men.
Graduate education is still considered a class privilege. By making low-income students work unpaid hours in the lab, are we contributing to inequalities in educational attainment?
Thinking about getting an education, but not sure how to make it work with current life obligations or different hurdles you have had to encounter? Higher education is for everyone, and here’s some resources to help you get what you need.
In today’s political climate, teachers nationwide have reported increases in conflict between students from different racial/ethnic groups. Helping kids form friendships across group lines may be the key to creating a more positive and affirming school environment.
Are you wondering how to get off to a good start in the beginning of your psychology Ph.D. program? Here are seven pieces of advice for your first year!
In this article, I will be writing about harm reduction, an approach to minimize the harmful risks involved in drug use, and the efficacy of different practices used with this approach, such as Needle Exchange Programs (NEP’s), Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT), and Safer Injection Sites.
Incorrect eyewitness identifications are a serious problem for the justice system. In this post, I describe simultaneous and sequential lineup formats and the ongoing debate over whether one of these formats results in more accurate witness identifications.
A crisis has emerged in dementia care due to caregiver burden, high costs of care, and a growing aging population. Intelligent Assistive Technologies could be the answer to some of these problems, but they carry a unique set of ethical issues. How can we address these issues and use technology to improve dementia care?
How does being a pre-teen make us more at risk for mental illness? And why do some people come out of puberty with mental health concerns, while others don’t?
Students are rarely taught how to study and often choose inefficient study strategies as a result. In this article I discuss what leads students to choose these strategies and offer alternatives backed by research in cognitive psychology and education.
Parents and teachers of young children often express fears of a child’s language delay. A missing piece of this conversation is the wide variety of language skills at early stages in development that are all within normative ranges.
One of the biggest barriers to people seeking mental health treatment is not knowing how to connect with a therapist. How can you find a therapist? What questions should you ask prospective therapists?
Rejection hurts. While we’d all like to avoid this feeling, broken bonds can be as bad for us as broken bones, if not worse. So while the pain of rejection is undesirable, it may actually be helping us effectively modify our behaviors to navigate the world around us.
There are many methods for studying the brain, from literally slicing it to look at it under a microscope to injecting radioactive tracers into it to see where a particular neurotransmitter is located. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a relatively newer approach to studying the brain, but what is this method, exactly?
Have you ever tried to understand things from another person’s point of view or wished someone would try to see things from your perspective? Perspective-taking research highlights the potential power of engaging in this activity.
We know fake news is bad for us and for society, yet the presence of fake news continues to grow. In this post, I discuss three psychological reasons why we continue to fall victim to fake news.
How can debilitating mental illnesses like schizophrenia survive when evolution favors survival of the fittest? Evolutionary psychologists explore ways in which psychosis or psychosis-risk may have been advantageous for our ancestors.