As an urban anthropologist, Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman felt a duty to record her experiences in lockdown. After all, this was a once-in-a-century global pandemic. And so, for the past 49 nights or so, she has noted her mood at the end of the day. Mostly, her moods have been fairly positive. More
… The coronavirus pandemic has brought all of us a lot closer to our impermanence. Faced with news photographs of makeshift morgues and dire headlines reporting body counts, we see that all of us, from Tom Hanks to Boris Johnson, are vulnerable—a fact that we push out of our minds in less threatening More
Video interview with APS Member Angela Duckworth Angela Duckworth, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, tells Ali Velshi and Dr. Zeke Emanuel that stress and anxiety related to COVID-19 are normal, but they are much worse “if you feel you are in it by yourself.” … Watch full More
Academic life is not just about discovery and excitement. Seven scholars share some common negative experiences in academia that no one talks about. More
APS Fellow Charles S. Carver, whose research focused on the personality dimensions of optimism versus pessimism, has died. More
A sample of new research exploring a cross-domain model of inhibitory control and the course of adjustment disorder following job loss. More
