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Reclassifying Psychopathology
Researchers are looking for ways to better conceptualize mental illnesses and reflect the natural variance clinicians see in the consulting room, rather than rely on traditional categories.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on motivation and pleasure deficits, rural suicide, the role of affective cognition in trauma and PTSD-related drinking, and much more.
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Understanding Addiction: A General Liability or Unique Disorder?
Podcast: Is there a single explanation that accounts for all addictive behaviors, or is the reality more complex? Under the Cortex explores.
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The Good News About Anxiety
... “Having a child, getting a new job, winning a sports game or performing in front of people — those are all stressful,” says Jeremy Jamieson, a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester who researches stress. “If we didn’t engage with stress, if we just tried to avoid it, we really wouldn’t do anything that was innovative.” Research on both humans and monkeys has found that enduring a small number of adverse events, such as a loved one’s illness or a parent’s divorce, can result in better mental health than experiencing either lots of adversity — or no adversity at all.
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Student Notebook: Is the Clinical Psychology PhD Admissions Process Scientific?
Doctoral student Miranda Wood explores the flaws of the clinical psychology admissions process and the challenges prospective students face when applying for a spot in the coveted program.
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New Content From Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on preprocessing experience-sampling-method data, noise versus signal, validity and transparency in quantifying data, and much more.
