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Australia’s Grand Social-Media Experiment
To celebrate the start of a nationwide ban on social media for kids under the age of 16, the Australian government lit the Sydney Harbour Bridge with the slogan Let Them Be Kids. ... Candice Odgers, a psychology professor at UC Irvine, also mentioned country-to-country comparisons as a problem. Odgers has studied several of the big questions around kids and social media, and has often challenged the idea that there is a scientific basis for the current level of concern. “Kids in Norway differ from kids in Australia for all kinds of reasons,” she told me. “I hope that’s not the pathway people go, but I fear it will be.”
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Mitochondria May Be Missing Link Between Mental Health and Brain Function
The bean-shaped organelles are now being recognized for their part in immune signaling, stress responses, and neural functioning.
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New Content From Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on statistical models, post publication, replication, and much more.
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2025 in Review: Revisiting Top Research From APS’s Journals
This year, psychological scientists tackled profound and varied questions to help us better understand ourselves and the world around us.
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Brain-computer Interfaces
They're especially useful for communicating with people who've lost the ability to speak or move their body. At the extreme, one brain-computer interface prototype can decipher imagined sentences, and comes with password protection to avoid revealing private thoughts. To understand more, Mihi is joined by University of Auckland Professor of Psychology Anthony Lambert.
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How to Build the Mindset Now Proven to Slow Ageing
... Dr Becca Levy, a professor of public health and psychology, lit the touchpaper of this research at the turn of the millennium. As a young graduate student, she had just spent a semester in Japan, thanks to a fellowship from the US National Science Foundation. The country was famous for its population’s extraordinary longevity and, immersing herself in its culture, she was struck by how much reverence the Japanese paid to their oldest citizens. Could the two be linked?
