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Highlights from Symposium Sunday
A breadth of Sunday programming included symposia on psychological science in security settings, factors that reduce intergroup bias, and the prevalence of Seasonal Affective Disorder.
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No Evidence of Seasonal Differences in Depressive Symptoms
A large-scale survey of U.S. adults provides no evidence that levels of depressive symptoms vary from season to season, according to new research published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological
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Summer-Haters Get Happy as Days Get Shorter
The Wall Street Journal: Many people get the blues as winter sets in. They experience rolling back the clock to end daylight-saving time and commuting home in the dark as a downer. Not so for
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How Spring Opens the Mind
The Atlantic: This time of year brings out humanity’s loosey-goosey side. For Easter, Czech people douse each other in cold water as part of an ancient fertility ritual. South Asians pelt each other with colored
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Can we change our moods with meditation?
Examiner: Can we change our moods through meditation? Yes, according to a recent study. In the late 1990s, Jane Anderson was working as a landscape architect. That meant she didn’t work much in the winter
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Meditation helped Jane Anderson fight seasonal affective disorder
Zee News India: Landscape artist Jane Anderson struggled with seasonal affective disorder in the winter months. She tried meditation and noticed a change within a month. “My experience was a sense of calmness, of better