Renowned grief expert, neuroscientist, and psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and learning.
Research suggests a trauma-sensitive and socioculturally adapted group intervention can significantly reduce posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, and multimorbidity among refugees and asylum seekers.
Understanding why most people remain resilient in the face of traumatic events is essential to understanding psychopathology, explains the 2019 APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow.
Psychological scientists are leading the way in researching the best way to treat mental health issues arising from traumatic events.
Children who experience early-life stress and abuse are at risk of a wide spectrum of later disorders and symptoms, including depression.
From 24-hour cable news to YouTube and Twitter, today’s mass media can turn local disasters into international events within minutes, and research reveals that widespread transmission can have a traumatic impact far beyond the people who are directly exposed.
This provides students with an opportunity to see that, often, analyses may lead to conclusions that are not final.
What happens after, during, and before natural disasters.
Expert commentary from Vanessa LoBue on emotional development and the effect of emotion and experience on perception and learning. [April 1, 2020]
New research confirms trigger warnings have little or no benefit.
Arielle Baskin-Sommers explores the cognitive-affective processes associated with disinhibition and community violence.
Civil unrest and political violence may be related to the psychological burden of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A conversation on loss and trauma with George Bonanno and Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Reduced access to rewards may influence brain development, contributing to the increased prevalence of mental health disorders in children living in economically impoverished environments.
Repeated incidences of racial discrimination and violence have far reaching consequences for mental health.
From team sports to social media, shared emotions and perceptions of social support can enhance social belonging and encourage prosocial behavior. But they don’t always bring out the best in groups. Scientists look at the psychological processes that allow us to experience emotions together.
