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Smartphone game designed to reduce anxiety shows promise in study
CBS: Anxiety relief could be at your fingertips just by playing a game on your smartphone, new research suggests. Not just any game, though. A professor of psychology and neuroscience teamed up with app developers
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Personal Zen app promises to reduce stress in 25 minutes
CNET: Feeling stressed? There’s an app for that. Personal Zen for iOS promises to reduce your stress and anxiety by way of a simple game played a few times per week. What’s behind that promise?
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Therapists’ Apps Aim To Help With Mental Health Issues
NPR: Games like Flappy Bird and Candy Crush have helped many of us de-stress during long waits at the doctor’s office and crowded Metro rides. But what if an app could actually help with mental
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Scholarship Fund Established in Memory of Varda Shoham
Clinical Psychological Science lost one of its leading voices in March when Varda Shoham, an APS Board Member, passed away after a 4-year battle with cancer. Shoham’s husband and research collaborator, Michael Rohrbaugh, has established
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Smartphone App Calms the Nerves
Science Magazine: Cellphones and other mobile devices have gotten a lot of bad press recently for keeping people tethered to stressful workplaces. But a new study suggests that mobile technology might also help tense people
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Good Results Are Worth the Wait. Self-Control Will Get You There.
Entrepreneur: The ability to manage our emotions and exert self-control is considered one of the cornerstones of emotional intelligence and a key predictor of personal and professional success. Yet, it doesn’t take a marshmallow test
