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Pandemic-related trauma is real. We need resources to help people through emotional pain.
An 11-year-old patient of mine changed abruptly from an outgoing, confident boy to an anxious, fearful one after his father developed COVID-19. He now wakes in the middle of the night crying and follows his
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¡Hola! Cómo estás? Speaking Spanish May Protect Your Heart
By providing wider access to emotion words, creating the potential for more optimism, and enhancing social relations, the Spanish language may influence how individuals build emotion schemas and appraise stress, influencing cardiovascular reactivity and recovery.
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Missing the Crowd for the Faces: The Crowd-Emotion-Amplification Effect
Focusing our attention on faces exhibiting more extreme emotions can lead us to overestimate a crowd’s emotional state.
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There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing
At first, I didn’t recognize the symptoms that we all had in common. Friends mentioned that they were having trouble concentrating. Colleagues reported that even with vaccines on the horizon, they weren’t excited about 2021.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on political moderation, unconscious touch perception, sexual arousal in transgender men, explicit instruction and reading, emotion and memory for future events , and the reliability of functional MRI.
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Missing the Crowd for the Faces: The Crowd-Emotion-Amplification Effect
How good are we at reading crowds’ emotions? Research indicates that individuals tend to focus their attention on the faces that exhibit the most extreme emotions, leading them to overestimate the crowd’s actual emotional state. These findings have implications for public speaking as well as for controlling crowd demonstrations.