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The Big Idea: Why It’s OK Not to Love Your Job
A few years ago, I went to a retirement event for someone who, in his late 80s at the time, had spent more than 60 years as a professor at New York University. He had been embedded in every aspect of academic life, from mentoring and research to fundraising. Over the years he had managed to teach 100,000 students the university’s Introduction to Psychology course. Ted is one of those institutional pillars who can tell you what the place was like in 1965. These days, most people don’t last more than four years in one job. I walked into Ted’s party thinking it would be full of students and teachers, but I was wrong.
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Philip Zimbardo, 91, Whose Stanford Prison Experiment Studied Evil, Dies
Philip G. Zimbardo, a towering figure in social psychology who explored how good people turn evil in the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, which devolved into chaos after college students acting as guards started abusing other students acting as prisoners, died on Oct. 14 at his home in San Francisco. He was 91.
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New York Times ‘Modern Love’ Editor on What He Learned After 20 Years of Love Stories
Daniel Jones never dreamed he'd still be doing a New York Times column about love two decades and 200,000 submissions later. Or that the Modern Love column would have grown to include a podcast, books, live shows and TV shows in four countries. ... One of the most popular articles, opened by more than 75 million people, was called The 36 Questions That Lead To Love, based on psychologist Arthur Aron's experiment to hasten the process of falling in love by asking increasingly intimate questions to your date and then staring into each other's eyes for four minutes.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on transmission versus truth, sensory-motor disorders in autism spectrum disorders, the diminished state-space theory of human aging, and much more.
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New ‘Unconscious’ Therapies Could Help Treat Phobias
If you’re terrified of spiders, a psychiatrist might suggest facing your fears through seeing pictures or getting close to the real thing—not just one time but over and over. For someone with arachnophobia, this sounds like a worst nightmare. ... Another technique, called “decoded neurofeedback,” or DecNef, involves coaxing people to produce brain activity corresponding to a fear without showing them the fear-causing stimulus itself.
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New Research Finds Trans Teens Have High Satisfaction With Gender Care
A study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics finds that transgender teenagers who have pursued medical interventions like puberty blockers and hormones are highly satisfied with their care. “Regret was very rare,” says lead author Kristina Olson, a psychology professor at Princeton University. It’s the latest research from the TransYouth Project, which Olson started in 2013, when transgender youth was a fairly obscure research area, far from the political limelight. Back then, “our team was interested in recruiting a group of kids who were socially transitioning,” she explains, meaning they started using new pronouns and names and clothes in childhood, between age 3 and 12.
