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Student Notebook: Using Self-Regulation to Balance Commitments
“Understanding your goals, your motivation, and the tools available to you are key to handling everything on your plate,” writes doctoral student Beth Anne Hosek.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of recent articles in Clinical Psychological Science. Covering depression, emotional regulation, self control, and more.
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Want More Self-Control? The Secret Isn’t Willpower.
… To improve willpower, it boils down to “just try harder,” said Kentaro Fujita, a professor of psychology at Ohio State University who studies self-regulation and decision making. But self-control involves a set of skills
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How to Stop Being So Hard on Yourself
If a friend is struggling with a big challenge or feels defeated, it’s usually our first instinct to offer words of comfort and understanding. But often it’s not so easy to do this for ourselves.
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on parental burnout, motivated egalitarianism, the philosophy of perception in the psychologist’s laboratory, facing the unknowns in data analysis, and much more.
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Sometimes Mindlessness Is Better Than Mindfulness
“Be present.” This is the mantra of mindfulness meditation and a supposed key to self-awareness and acceptance. In one type of mindfulness exercise, the goal is to perform routine activities with a heightened sense of
