Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
“Digital-Media Use and Mental Health: A Teachable Example of Psychological Science Shining Its Light“ by David G. Myers and “She sounds nice!“ by Beth Morling. More
“Digital-Media Use and Mental Health: A Teachable Example of Psychological Science Shining Its Light“ by David G. Myers and “She sounds nice!“ by Beth Morling. More
Do humans learn the same way as computers? Cognitive psychologists have debated this question for decades, but in the past few years the remarkable accomplishments of deep-learning computer systems have fanned the flames, particularly among researchers who study object recognition. Humans effortlessly know that a tree is a tree and More
What should a parent do when a 2-year-old shrieks inconsolably because her string cheese wrapper tore “the wrong way”? Increasingly, the answer is “snap a photo, add a snarky caption and upload it to Instagram.” Publicly laughing at your toddler’s distress has somehow become not only acceptable but encouraged. Websites More
Every Wednesday afternoon, an alert flashes on the cellphones of about 50 teenagers in New York and Pennsylvania. Its questions are blunt: “In the past week, how often have you thought of killing yourself?” “Did you make a plan to kill yourself?” “Did you make an attempt to kill yourself?” More
Frequent phone use can be detrimental to our productivity and even our mental health. More
Sitting in front of a screen is bad for you. Then it’s good for you. Then it’s bad for you again. But, like, only a bit. Allow me to explain. … This is exactly the hypothesis that two researchers from the University of Oxford tested in a paper called “A More