Behavior & Society – Scientific American
April 15, 2020 Letitia DenhamFighting the pandemic from home and for home New research in mice suggests that a…
Fighting the pandemic from home and for home
New research in mice suggests that a pregnancy hormone contributes to brain and behavioral changes caused by childhood adversity
7 hours ago — Esther Landhuis
I stood at the bedside with the patient’s parents, siblings and grandparents as we watched the monitor count down her final breaths
Rejection stings for everyone, but for highly rejection-sensitive people, it can be a real showstopper
April 13, 2020 — Jade Wu Savvy Psychologist
Going out to interview people in rural Kentucky brought the dry population statistics I work with vividly to life
April 13, 2020 — Emily E. Miller
It will kill many directly, but the effort to fight it will incur a huge toll on other aspects of our health and well-being
It reveals that they involve the amygdala, the prefrontal cortex, the posterior cingulate and the anterior temporal cortex
In times of great uncertainty, we should look beyond the data
Research on positive psychology may help prevent burnout
April 9, 2020 — Andrea Gawrylewski
Psychologists can’t agree whether facial expressions reliably convey moods. But companies building emotion-recognition software aren’t waiting to find out
April 9, 2020 — Douglas Heaven and Nature magazine
There is a superior way to motivate kids and make them feel proud about their accomplishments
April 7, 2020 — Çisem Gürel and Eddie Brummelman
Teens’ tech skills can help keep us stay close when we’re physically apart
Public health interventions can work in this poor and populous country—but only if the people are involved in designing and implementing them
Some famous musicians—from Mariah Carey to Jimi Hendrix—have a gift known as perfect pitch. What is it? Could you have it, too?
April 4, 2020 — Everyday Einstein Sabrina Stierwalt
The ongoing effort to fight COVID-19 wins broad support, even across partisan divides
In an era of big research, having confidence in scientists, individually or collectively, involves trade-offs
A study on isolation’s neural underpinnings implies many may feel literally “starved” for contact amid the COVID-19 pandemic
April 2, 2020 — Lydia Denworth
From online journal clubs to “tweetorials” to conference updates, social media is changing the dissemination and discussion of biomedicine
April 1, 2020 — Nicole Wetsman and Nature Medicine
How to find meaning in life through authentic and autonomous living
Getting people to comply with social distancing policies is basically an exercise in marketing
