Teenagers and young adults who intentionally hurt themselves engage in such behavior based, in part, on how they experience pain and their emotional distress, according to findings published in Clinical Psychological Science. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that non-suicidal self-injury is relatively common in adolescents, with more More
Leading behavioral scientists propose a new framework that outlines four types of self-control strategies. More
If you want to win a race or stick to a difficult diet, coaches of all kinds will tell you it’s all about “mind over matter.” But that advice rarely crosses over into the medical community, where an inborn ability—or risk—is thought to depend more on genes and environment than More
A particular challenge to maintaining the status quo may be inherent in how our brain functions. More
I have this awful, corny joke I trot out whenever I’m glossing over details for future plans with friends or brushing off something I don’t want to deal with: “That’s Future Tim’s problem. Let that chump deal with it.” Poor, poor Future Tim. Constantly set up for failure by that More
Clinical researchers and other scientists investigate computer algorithms that could lead to reliable measures of suicide risk. More
