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Forcing a Smile Using Electrical Stimulation Can Boost Your Mood
The expression “a smile a day keeps the blues away” may have some credence beyond the realm of greeting card messages. The lingering question of whether a smile or frown lifts or depresses emotion has
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Deanna Barch Wins 2024 Sarnat Prize in Mental Health
APS Fellow Deanna Barch, a professor of psychology and radiology and Vice Dean of Research at Washington University in St. Louis, has been awarded the 2024 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health.
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Confidence Is Key to Well-being. Here Are 5 Ways to Boost Yours
Everyone has encountered them: people who always appear to know what they are doing. They gladly take control of a situation, express their opinions as if they were established facts or plunge into a project
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Can Tracking Your Moods Make You Happier?
Tracking daily steps can motivate us to walk more. Tracking sleep can reveal problems such as sleep apnea. Can tracking our moods make us happier? There are now many tech ways to log where you fall on
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Back Page: Dumb (but Useful) AI, Smart Teams, and the Promise of Predictive Analytics
Steven W. J. Kozlowski discusses his research at the Advanced Research on Complex Adaptive Systems project and how computational modeling can help explain what we observe in the real world.
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Zoom and Alcohol Don’t Mix—Looking at Yourself During Online Social Gatherings May Worsen Mood; Alcohol May Increase This Effect
The more a person stares at themselves while talking with a partner in an online chat, the more their mood degrades over the course of the conversation, a new study finds. Alcohol use appears to worsen this effect.
