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Why Is It Hard to Fully Enjoy Positive Moments?
Researchers explore how dampening, defined as minimizing positive emotions, can relate to depression symptoms in a new study.
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How to Use Habit-Stacking to Reach Your Health and Wellness Goals
Many people have ambitious goals to improve their health: work out, meditate, eat healthier, get to bed earlier. But so often, those good intentions to improve your well-being can fail to translate to real life — despite your best efforts. ...
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How to Let Go of Grudges— And Why It Could Be Good for Your Health
... The study only shows correlation, not causation. But it builds on decades of previous research, including clinical trials, that suggests that people who are more able to let go of grudges tend to be doing a bit better emotionally and socially over time. Everett Worthington Jr., a professor emeritus of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University and a co-author of the NPJ Mental Health Research study, said he was intrigued by the cross-country differences in the data.
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APS Responds to FY 2027 Presidential Budget
APS sent a letter to congress urging them to preserve the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation.
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Why It’s Important to Talk About Race With Children
... In 2022, even though research on white parents discussing racism was still emerging, my colleagues and I argued that they needed to have these conversations with their children. At the time, we pointed to the subtle things children can absorb racial biases from—the diversity (or lack thereof) of their parents’ social circles, the characters they see on television and the differences they notice between social classes. But in 2025 subtlety is a thing of the past. In attacking diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, the Trump administration is legitimizing and emboldening racism in ways that children—especially white children—undoubtedly notice.
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Songbirds Reveal the Dark Side of Making New Brain Cells as Adults
Every day the human body replaces billions of cells, flushing out the old and generating the new, healthy ones. The average lifespan of a red blood cell is just under four months, while skin cells last about a month and those in the intestinal lining exist for just a few days. This turnover is the default, but there’s one part of the body in which humans and other mammals don’t seem geared toward generating new cells: the brain. ...
