The Social Defense
Through lab experiments and field studies with survivors of historic wildfires, APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Richard A. Bryant has demonstrated the power of relationships and community to temper psychological trauma. … More
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Mindfulness meditation is huge, but science isn’t sure how, or whether, it works
Meditation: It’s celebrated as a therapeutic tool to help ease stress, anxiety, depression, addiction and chronic pain. It’s come into… More
New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring criterion thresholds, nonsuicidal self-injury, the network stability of anxiety and depression, replicability of PTSD networks, and interpretation biases in depression and social anxiety… More
New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring trends in adolescent media use and depression, memory amplification following trauma, perceptual inference in autism spectrum disorders, and statistical learning applied to diagnostic predictions… More
Emotions in Context: What We Know About How We Feel
Data from around the world show few differences in people’s day-to-day emotional experiences, but distinct cultural differences in the feelings they find most desirable, APS Fellow Jeanne Tsai has found. Tsai is among psychological scientists across the globe who are charting the depths of emotion research… More
New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research articles exploring the role of memory in PTSD and depression, effects of a negative parenting intervention on children’s ADHD symptoms, and conceptualizing mechanisms of change in different kinds of therapy… More