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Student Notebook: Police Brutality and Mental Health in the African-American Community
Repeated incidences of racial discrimination and violence have far reaching consequences for mental health.
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The Holocaust Survivor Hoping to Change American Police Culture
Ervin Staub has always known the difference a bystander could make. He was born in 1938, and by the time he was six, the Nazis were deporting 440,000 of his fellow Hungarian Jews to death camps. “There
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Why Outfitting Police in Military Uniforms Encourages Brutality
APS Member/Author: Adam Galinsky As protests over the systemic brutality by law enforcement against Black Americans continue, an enduring image will be of a blue wall of police, outfitted in helmets and riot gear, prepared
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Policing and Law Enforcement: Further Considerations from Psychological Science
A review of some research on police and stereotyping, police officers’ aggressiveness, and the impact of psychological science on policing in the United States.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on distress caused by contact with ex-partners, the results of attention-bias modification on anxiety symptoms, risk factors in male sex offenders, and self-esteem and borderline personality disorder.
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Funding for Gun-Violence Research Ends 20-Year Drought
With the passage of the 2020 US funding bill in December, US federal funding dollars will finally be allocated for research on gun violence and ways to prevent it.