Making Nice: How Giving and Gratitude Can Rebuild Connections and Break Down Barriers

Well-Being

The act of giving can help those in need even as it improves the giver’s own well-being. More

Laurie Santos Says Self-Care Doesn’t Have to Be Selfish

Laurie Santos, a psychology professor at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab podcast, is a leading expert in positive psychology, a relatively young field. Since she began teaching “The Science of Well-Being” in 2018, it has become the most popular course in Yale’s history, with nearly a quarter of students More

New Research in Psychological Science

A sample of research on factors that predict faster spread of COVID-19, how optimism might decrease unethical behaviors during the pandemic, development of language perception, color-emotion associations, moral choice, decision making, and well-being and person-culture match. More

Being ‘Merely Tolerated’ May Put Minority Members at Risk

The implied disapproval that accompanies being tolerated may exact a toll on individual well-being. More

New Research in Psychological Science

A sample of research on mind-set theory, desire to be moral, subjective well-being around the world and across life span, and gender-equality paradox in STEM, and a replication of social facilitation/inhibition effects with cockroaches. More