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For Young Adults, Limiting Social Media Use Doesn’t Improve Well-Being
What happens when young adults are asked to slash their social media use to 30 minutes a day? In a new set of studies, most did not follow through, and those who did cut back
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Across Cultures, People Share Beliefs on How Children’s Minds Grow
A new study examines how people from around the world think about children’s mental development.
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Our Last Wi-Fi-Less Refuge Is Gone
Until very recently, airplanes were one of the last places where you couldn’t count on having good Wi-Fi. Even the Amazon’s most remote villages have high-speed internet, but for years, the typical in-flight connectivity experience could have been best summed up by the aviation Reddit thread titled “WiFi horrible?” ... No one will argue that breathing stale air in a seat that offers 30 inches of leg room counts as a wellness retreat, and the research on how much dedicated tech detoxes actually improve well-being is mixed.
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The Simple Trick That Can Help You Understand Your Emotions
Here’s the scene: You’re catching up with a friend over coffee when your elbow clips your cup, sending espresso all over her brand-new phone. You feel awful. You mop up the spill, apologize five times, and bolt—then avoid her for days, turning a ruined phone into a damaged friendship. The problem isn’t that you feel awful. It’s that awful doesn’t give you much to work with. It tells you the situation feels bad, but not why—or what to do about it.
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What Doctors Want You to Know About ‘Catch-Up’ Sleep
You’ve spent Monday through Friday running on five hours of sleep, working late nights and waking up early just to do it all over again. On Saturday, you get 12 glorious hours of shut-eye and feel instantly refreshed when you wake up. You’re all caught up on your sleep, right? Actually, not quite. The idea that a single morning or weekend spent logging extra hours in bed can wipe away a week’s worth of sleep deprivation is one of the most persistent sleep myths out there. Here’s what sleep experts wish everyone understood about how “catch-up” sleep actually works and why your z’s can’t just be topped off like a gas tank.
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APS Teaching Fund Supports Projects on Training, Memory, and New Therapy Approaches
Projects will teach the science of memory, train undergraduates to deliver clinical interventions, and present a reflective model for viewing therapeutic processes with young people.
