For all its challenges to mental health, this year of the plague also put psychological science to the test, and in particular one of its most consoling truths: that age and emotional well-being tend to increase together, as a rule, even as mental acuity and physical health taper off. The More
Think back over the Year of COVID: what images strike in your mind? Correspondent Martha Teichner asked six prominent public figures to remember and reflect. “Just empty cities across the world,” said urban studies theorist Richard Florida. “Broadway, just empty,” said “Hamilton” star Renée Elise Goldsberry. “Store after store, first More
APS Member/Author: Dorothy P. Holinger I have known grief all my life. My baby sister died when I was a toddler, and I know what it did to my family. We couldn’t grieve her death properly because the family ethos was not to talk about our losses. Now, as a More
Those thoughts, typed into a digital journal on May 30, could stand as an anthem for this tragic pandemic year, a cry recognized around the world without explanation or context. Yet there is plenty of context from this writer, richly detailed and in weekly installments: “We mourn time lost and More
How do you make plans when it’s impossible to make plans? The ground beneath our feet is constantly shifting. Planning for anything more than a week out can feel futile — almost silly — since no one knows what the next week, much less the next month, will bring. A More
APS Member/Author: Barry Schwartz The stress of uncertain pain outsizes the stress of certain pain. These were the results of a 2016 study, published long before the uncertainty of Pandemic 2020 was running the world show. In the study, participants with a 50 percent chance of receiving a shock were more More
