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Living in Deprived Neighborhoods May Hinder Reward Anticipation, Moderating Mental Health
Reduced access to rewards may influence brain development, contributing to the increased prevalence of mental health disorders in children living in economically impoverished environments.
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To Boost STEM Graduation Rates, Focus on What You Can Control
Interventions that encourage students to attribute academic failure to controllable factors could help boost graduation rates.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on economic behavior, motivation interventions in education, perception, neural representations of procedural knowledge, empathy and romantic relationships, and stereotype-threat in chess.
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To Boost STEM Graduation Rates, Focus on What You Can Control
Interventions that encourage students to attribute academic failure to controllable factors could help boost graduation rates.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on the relationship between executive functions, impulsivity, and psychopathology, affective dynamics in psychopathology, risk profiles in social anxiety disorder, the effects of emphasizing negative affect in psychiatric diagnosis, motivation in schizophrenia, and neural patterns in patients with anxiety.
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2020 APS Mentor Awards
The 2020 recipients, selected for their dedication to their students and colleagues, are Toni C. Antonucci, Elizabeth Bjork and Robert Bjork, and E. Tory Higgins.
