The Benefits of Biculturalism
People who move to a new place are often torn between assimilating to their new culture and staying in touch with their old one. Several studies suggest, however, that...
An Intervention to Prevent Anxiety and Depression
Ounce of prevention, pound of cure, all that. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could treat psychiatric disorders by preventing them? Recently, an international team of researchers did a...
Dirty Secrets About New Year’s Resolutions
It’s common knowledge that New Year’s resolutions are made to be broken, but you don’t know the half of it. Studies looking at how people’s renewed commitments to healthy...
3 Traits That Make You Resilient to Failure
We all know that we can’t choose when we fail, only how we react to failure when it does happen. But what’s less clear is why some people are...
Home Environment Influences Math and Science Learning
Math and science learning isn’t just something that happens in the classroom. Several new studies have confirmed that children’s parents and home environment play an important role in shaping...
Near Misses Drive Gambling Behavior
One of the paradoxes of gambling is that losing can make people want to keep playing as much as winning. All losses are not created equal, though. Several studies...
Meditation Retreats May Have Lasting Mental Health Benefits
Meditation is an increasingly popular mental health tool, and if you’ve heard about any of the recent research suggesting several health benefits to meditation, you might have been tempted...
Is There a Perfectly Boring Task?
Boredom research is a fairly popular area of study in psychology recently. It’s not to be confused with boring research because it can give us some interesting insights into...
Can Pursuing Happiness Make You Unhappy?
How’s this for a cruel paradox: the more you want to be happy, the less happy you become. I’m not just suggesting that idea as a thought experiment. According...
Reminiscence and Mental Health
An occasional trip down memory lane might be just what the psychologist ordered, at least according to a study published last month by researchers from Australia. To learn about...
