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Promises and Challenges of Working With a Multidisciplinary Team
Two researchers describe their experiences working on a multidisciplinary team during the development and implementation of an intervention designed to reduce intimate partner violence.
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This American Moment Calls for Psychologists to Think Differently
Stand Up for Science Founder Colette Delawalla shares what psychologists can uniquely offer to support science in the U.S. political sphere.
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Is The Key To Better Aging All In Our Mind?
Cheese and wine aren’t the only things that get better with age: many older adults also show significant improvements in their physical and cognitive health over time, according to a new study. The reason why seems to lie in how they think about aging. “Our findings suggest there is often a reserve capacity for improvement in later life,” said study co-author Becca Levy, a professor of social and behavioral sciences at Yale University, in a statement. “And because age beliefs are modifiable, this opens the door to interventions at both the individual and societal level.”
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Can Dreams Help You Solve Problems?
... As well, in recent years, researchers have found ways to influence dreams by communicating with people while they are in a lucid state. In 2021, Ken Paller and Karen Konkoly of Northwestern University and their colleagues reported that they had established two-way communication with lucid dreamers, tapping their hands in a specific pattern and having them signal back with eye movements. The sleeping subjects received math questions and dreamed about the solutions, relaying them to the experimenter. This work opened the door to someday, perhaps, asking people in real time what they are dreaming about.
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Can’t Stop Overthinking?
Overthinking might not strike you as a strenuous activity. You don’t have to move a muscle to spend hours imagining worst-case scenarios, debating choices or playing the day’s headlines on a loop. And yet, running mental laps can feel almost as exhausting as real ones. ... Thinking itself isn’t the problem. Ethan Kross, psychologist, researcher and author of “Chatter,” said that our inner voice can be a really valuable tool. It allows us to reflect, plan, rehearse important conversations, motivate ourselves toward goals and make sense of what happens to us, among other things.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of recent articles covering substance abuse, psychopathology, bias, and much more.
