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• Leave the hurt behind! How to let go of a grudge

  26-03-2025 06:00
  
  Resentment is natural when you’ve been wronged, but over time it can become bitter and self-defeating. Psychologists explain how to move onAt some point in the late 70s, during a Brownies meeting, something happened to Deborah that she has never been able to forget. Well, she can’t actually remember exactly what the incident was, but she knows the perpetrator – another girl, who still lives in her town. “I think she might have pushed me,” says Deborah. “I thin
  
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• Best Health Care Website to be Named by Web Marketing Association in 29th Annual WebAward Competition

  25-03-2025 14:16 via pr.com
  
  The Web Marketing Association is now accepting entries for the 29th annual WebAward Competition, recognizing the best websites of 2025 across 86 industries, healthcare, healthcare provider, and medical. Judged by industry experts, winners gain valuable feedback, SEO benefits, and global recognition. The entry deadline is May 30, 2025. Don’t miss your chance to showcase your digital excellence — enter today at [PR.com]
  
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• New Reiki Energy Course Offers Relief and Ease for Those Suffering with Chronic Pain

  25-03-2025 13:35 via pr.com
  
  Amie Longmire's website is dedicated to all things Energy Healing, self care, self compassion, and mindfulness. Amie Longmire, LCPC is a Psychotherapist, Master Reiki Practitioner, Artist, Writer, group facilitator, curriculum designer, and educator with a passion for creativity and storytelling as a natural means to great mental health. Join her community and begin your healing journey today at her website. [PR.com]
  
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• James Pennebaker and the Power of Physical Markers in Social Research 

  25-03-2025 08:10 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Association for Psychological ScienceJames Pennebaker has always been curious about people. He attended Eckerd College as an undergraduate with the intention of eventually going to law school, but psychology diverted his attention. "There was something about it, especially social psychology, that intrigued me," he remembered during an interview with the APS Observer. "Why are we sometimes unbelievably cruel and vicious and other times altruistic and really good?"
  
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• Record Payout for World's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate

  25-03-2025 08:09 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: BBC News - AsiaA Japanese man who spent nearly 50 years on death row before being acquitted of murder will be compensated 217 million yen ($1.45 million) in what his lawyers say is the country's largest-ever payout in a criminal case. Iwao Hakamata, 89, was found guilty in 1968 of killing his boss, his boss's wife, and their children, but was acquitted last year after a retrial. His lawyers successfully argued that 47 years in detention took a toll on his...
  
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• Healthy Eating in Midlife Linked to Overall Healthy Aging

  25-03-2025 08:09 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science Daily - Top HealthMaintaining a healthy diet rich in plant-based foods, with low to moderate intake of animal-based foods and lower intake of ultra-processed foods, was linked to a higher likelihood of healthy aging—defined as reaching age 70 free of major chronic diseases and with cognitive, physical, and mental health maintained, according to a new study. The study is among the first to examine multiple dietary patterns in midlife in relation to overall...
  
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• Where do our early childhood memories go? – podcast

  25-03-2025 06:00
  
  It’s a mystery that has long puzzled researchers. Why can’t we remember our early childhood experiences? Freud called the phenomenon infantile amnesia, and for many years scientists have wondered whether it’s a result of failure to create memories or just a failure to retrieve them. Now new research appears to point to an answer. To find out more, Ian Sample talks to Nick Turk-Browne, a professor of psychology at Yale University.Why can’t we remember our lives as babies o
  
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• The big idea: should you dump your toxic friend?

  24-03-2025 13:30
  
  Self-help pundits advise us to cut difficult people out of our lives, but it’s not the only optionIt was snowing and the heating had broken the day I visited the Mass Observation Archive in Brighton. I sat in my coat, woolly hat and fingerless gloves, my breath clouding the air. Before me were nearly two hundred anonymous letters written in 2007, most by hand, reflecting on the “ups and downs” of friendship.Mass Observation is a treasure trove for historians like me. Since 1939
  
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• After becoming obsessed with self-help, I had to heal from ‘healing’

  23-03-2025 14:00
  
  How the writer found her ongoing fixation on self-development was actually working against her I have lied to people. Last year I read twice the amount of self-help books than I logged on Goodreads. The number would raise serious concern and some of the titles would, too. I say I’m a culture journalist, but I couldn’t share my Spotify Wrapped because my most listened-to music was healing ambient tracks called things like “Whole Being REGENERATION”. My podcast listening ha
  
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• My adult daughter wants to turn herself back into a teenager | Ask Philippa

  23-03-2025 07:11
  
  Distorted external referencing can keep her paralysed, because she’s trying to live up to an imagined idealThe question My daughter is now 34 years old, but she wants to be a teenager again, because she feels that she missed out on the fun she should have had back then. She hates the way she looks, because she thinks she looks older than 16. She wants cosmetic surgery and orthodontics to look younger.She wants to experience university life as a fresher again and have young fun, but she als
  
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• Ban on unregulated experts in family courts proposed for England and Wales

  22-03-2025 17:00
  
  Public consulted after concerns over children removed from parents on evidence of psychologists without right qualificationsUnregulated experts could be banned from the family courts under new proposals for proceedings involving children in England and Wales.The Family Procedure Rule Committee, which sets the rules in family court cases, has proposed changes to the rules, which are now out for public consultation. It follows growing concern from MPs and campaigners about court-appointed experts
  
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• Island Nations Call for Ecocide to Become an International Crime

  22-03-2025 15:00 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Top Stories NewsEnvironmental destruction should be on the same level as genocide and war crimes, contends a group of island nations. The South Pacific country of Vanuatu, backed by Fiji and Samoa, is pushing to have ecocide recognized by the International Criminal Court, the independent court that prosecutes individuals charged with the gravest crimes. Ecocide is defined as the destruction of large areas of the natural environment as a consequence of huma
  
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• Columbia University Agrees to Trump Administration's Demand for Mask Ban

  22-03-2025 15:00 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: BBC News - Top HeadlinesColumbia University has agreed to several demands from the Trump administration after $400 million in federal funding was cut over accusations the school failed to fight antisemitism on campus. Columbia says face masks used for the purpose of concealing identity will no longer be allowed, and protesters, when asked, will need to present university identification—one of nine items required before the administration said it would reconsider the...
  
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• Colleges Cut Ties with the PhD Project, Nonprofit Targeted Over DEI

  22-03-2025 14:59 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: PBS EducationUntil recently, it was a little-known program to help Black and Latine students pursue business degrees. But in January, conservative strategist Christopher Rufo flagged the program known as "The PhD Project" in social media posts that caught the attention of Republican leaders. The program is now at the center of a White House campaign to end diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in higher education, and some schools are complying by...
  
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• ABLE Accounts Allow Americans with Disabilities to Save and Invest

  22-03-2025 14:57 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: CBS News - HealthPaul Safarik, 32, has worked in the food industry since he was 21. With his earnings, Safarik, who has Down syndrome, helped cover the cost of braces for his teeth. That's unusual, financially speaking, and it's thanks in part to a little-known savings account called an ABLE account, which lets U.S. citizens with disabilities save money beyond the $2,000 asset limit that's linked to benefits like Supplemental Security Income and Medicaid.
  
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• What is the meaning of life? 15 possible answers – from a palliative care doctor, a Holocaust survivor, a jail inmate and more

  22-03-2025 08:00
  
  I asked some well-known names for their thoughts on the ultimate existential question. Their answers were fascinating, funny – and could help us frame our days on EarthIn September 2015, I was unemployed, heartbroken and living alone in my dead grandad’s caravan, wondering what the meaning of life was. Where was I going to find happiness, or purpose, or meaning? What was the point to all of this?Like any millennial, I turned to Google for the answers. I trawled through essays, newspa
  
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• Crisis in Antarctica: can science teams ever prepare for isolated assignments?

  21-03-2025 08:58
  
  Alleged assault at polar base shows the importance of research on cabin fever – including on future Mars missionsSouth Africa has a tight regime for scientists wanting to “overwinter” in Antarctica. The 13-month assignment to an isolated research base on the top of a cliff edge is, as the environment ministry drily puts it, “testing”. Average annual temperatures are -16C but drop much lower during the winter darkness.All applicants are subjected to psychometric anal
  
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• Hungary Bans LGBT Pride Marches

  20-03-2025 16:33 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: BBC News - EuropeHungary has passed a law banning LGBTQ+ pride marches, sparking outrage in and out of the country. Parliament voted for the measure just a day after the bill was submitted Monday, in a process fast-tracked by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's right-wing party. Orban praised the ban, alleging that LGBTQ+ marches harm children, saying: "We won't let woke ideology endanger our kids." Pride marches had been held in Hungary for the past 30 years.
  
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• Recent Studies Seek to Reclassify Psychopathology

  20-03-2025 09:46 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Association for Psychological ScienceResearchers are looking for ways to better conceptualize mental illnesses and reflect the natural variance clinicians see, rather than relying on traditional categories. These approaches allow researchers to study differences both between individuals and within individuals, and they may be able to help people who are subclinically anxious or depressed, potentially permitting interventions with young children before diagnoses would traditionally...
  
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• Google Agrees to Pay $28 Million in Racial Bias Lawsuit

  19-03-2025 18:20 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: BBCNews - BusinessGoogle has agreed to pay $28 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed White and Asian employees were given better pay and career opportunities than workers from other ethnic backgrounds. The technology giant confirmed it had "reached a resolution" but rejected the allegations made against it. Earlier this year, Google joined other U.S. companies that dropped commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion in their recruitment policies.
  
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• U-Penn Loses $175M in Federal Funds Over Transgender Sports Policy

  19-03-2025 14:56 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsThe University of Pennsylvania's policy allowing transgender women to compete in women's sports caused the Trump administration to withhold $175 million in funding for the Ivy League school. "The Trump administration has 'paused $175 million in federal funding from the University of Pennsylvania' over its policy forcing women to compete with men in sports," White House officials said in a post on its "Rapid Response" X account.
  
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• Judge Blocks Trump Order Barring Transgender People From Military

  19-03-2025 06:20 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: CBS News - U.S. NewsA U.S. federal judge on Tuesday blocked enforcement of a new Defense Department policy barring transgender people from serving in the military. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes granted an injunction sought by transgender active-duty service members and transgender people who are in the process of enlisting. In her ruling, the judge wrote: "In the self-evident truth that 'all people are created equal,' all means all. Nothing more. And certainly...
  
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• Immigrants Disappear From U.S. System After Deportation Flights

  19-03-2025 06:20 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google NewsFranco Caraballo called his wife Friday, crying and panicked. Hours earlier, the 26-year-old barber and dozens of other Venezuelan migrants at a federal detention facility in Texas were dressed in white clothes, handcuffed, and flown to a prison in El Salvador after being accused by the Trump administration of belonging to a Venezuelan gang. The next day, his name disappeared from the U.S. detainee system, even though his wife insists he's not a...
  
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• After Columbia's "Nightmare," Dozens of Schools Brace for Trump NIH Cuts

  19-03-2025 06:20 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: ScienceA "nightmare," "in shock," "devastating." Those are some reactions Columbia University researchers had last week after learning that their funding is included in the $250 million in National Institutes of Health grants that the Trump administration is ending because of the school's alleged "antisemitic harassment." The cancellation has rocked universities nationwide as the White House has begun investigating 59 additional schools for...
  
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• U.S. Evangelical Groups Urge Trump to Spare HIV/AIDS Program From Cuts

  19-03-2025 05:09 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthChristian evangelical organizations that helped create a U.S. program to save millions of lives from HIV/AIDS are pressing the Trump administration to rescue the program from crushing cuts to foreign assistance. The two-decade-old President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which is estimated to have prevented 25 million early deaths, depends heavily on support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has seen many of its...
  
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• Psychological Prehabilitation Improves Surgical Recovery

  17-03-2025 17:28 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science Daily - Top HealthA new analysis led by surgeons found that psychological prehabilitation can significantly enhance recovery after surgery. Psychological prehabilitation refers to a proactive approach aimed at improving surgical outcomes through preventive measures. The study, published in the Annals of Surgery, analyzed data from 20 randomized controlled trials and found that prehabilitation reduced the length of hospital stay, pain, anxiety, and depression...
  
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• ‘The longer I left it, the more it was going to freak me out’: how Will returned to the water after a close call with a shark

  17-03-2025 15:00
  
  Getting ‘back on the horse’ after a traumatic experience requires risk assessment – but there are tools we can use to reframe our thinking and move forwardIt was a beautiful Friday afternoon in April 2010 when Will Salter stood on the shore and appraised a reef break on Victoria’s Mornington peninsula. He can tell you the exact time, too: 5pm.As he paddled for 10 minutes towards three other surfers, he could smell remnants from a whale carcass that had washed up months ea
  
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• A manager’s flat response to Gail’s initiative left her deflated. Feeling seen is fundamental to human wellbeing | Gaynor Parkin

  16-03-2025 15:00
  
  The relationship between employees and organisations isn’t just about pay and benefits – it’s about being valued and respected for our contributionsThe modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their workA few weeks ago, Gail* sat in her manager’s office, spreadsheet open on her laptop, excited to share the results of her work.Over an intense week, she had orchestrated an impressive series of sales meetings, speaking events and
  
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• Virtual reality goggles helped me on the path to physical recovery

  16-03-2025 13:00
  An unexpected bit of tech opened up a whole new world of possibilities for a frustrated, injured writer If you had asked me a month or two ago if I had ever had a spatial immersive experience, or what the chances were that at the age of 60, I would become an early adopter of virtual reality goggles, I would have said it was about as likely as a tech giant from Silicon Valley being appointed to “disrupt” the US federal government.Let me explain the unlikely series of events that led m
  
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• Nobel Winning Psychologist Daniel Kahneman Died by Assisted Suicide

  16-03-2025 12:49 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google NewsIsraeli-American psychologist and Nobel Prize winner in economics Daniel Kahneman, who died last year, used doctor-assisted suicide to end his life, a Wall Street Journal essay revealed on Friday. Kahneman flew to Switzerland a year ago to end his life and only let close friends and family know about his decision by email while en route to Europe. He was 90 at the time of his death, and was in relatively good mental and physical health.
  
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• Wide-awake at night but tired in the morning?

  14-03-2025 20:36 via cnn.com
  
  You may be dealing with an issue such as bad sleep hygiene, disturbed sleep throughout the night, or an underlying sleep disorder.
  
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• COVID worsened doctor and nurse shortages, leaving rural hospitals still struggling

  14-03-2025 20:35 via npr.org
  
  The impacts of the pandemic accelerated the shortages by pushing many doctors over the edge into early retirement or other fields.
  
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• ‘You have unmet needs’: the psychology behind Australia’s love affair with big cars

  14-03-2025 15:00
  
  The promise of adventure, attention, muscle and safety is driving consumers towards large vehicles – even as they fuel congestion and outstrip the size of car parksAustralians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlierGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA “rugged, woodsy dude” is slaying dragons, fighting bears, wielding a chainsaw and jumping a volcano in the latest Ram commercial, released for the Super Bowl
  
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• MemoryCareAI Transitions to Scienza Health, Advancing Early Detection with AI and Extensive Patient Data

  14-03-2025 08:00 via pr.com
  
  New Name Reflects Expanded Focus on Cognitive and Behavioral Health Research [PR.com]
  
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• Views of mental, physical health lowest in almost 25 years

  13-03-2025 20:34 via thehill.com
  Americans’ views of their mental and physical health are at the lowest point in nearly 25 years, a downturn that accelerated at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and has continued since.
  
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• U.N. Experts Accuse Israel of Sexual Violence and "Genocidal Acts" in Gaza

  13-03-2025 17:05 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: BBC News - Middle EastU.N. experts have accused Israel of increasingly using sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians and carrying out "genocidal acts" through the systematic destruction of maternal and reproductive healthcare facilities. A report commissioned by the U.N. Human Rights Council documents alleged human rights violations, including rape, in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since Hamas's 7 October 2023 attack on Israel triggered the Gaza war.
  
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• What's in a Label? It's Different for Boys and Girls, Study of Parents Finds

  13-03-2025 17:04 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science Daily - Top SocietyResearch has shown that adults tend to think of men when asked to think of a person. A new study by psychology researchers shows that the way parents talk to their children may contribute to these perceptions. Their findings show that parents across the U.S. are more likely to use gender-neutral labels—for instance, "kid"—more often for boys than for girls and to use gender-specific labels, such as "girl," more often for girls than for boys.
  
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• U.S. EPA Eliminating Environmental Justice Jobs

  13-03-2025 17:04 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: CBS News - U.S. NewsThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is "eliminating all diversity, equity and inclusion and environmental justice offices and positions immediately," according to screenshots of an internal memo obtained by CBS News. The move—made in response to President Trump's order on "ending radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferences"—means the Environmental Justice Divisions within 10 EPA regional offices will be eliminated.
  
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• She Advanced DEI at Her School. Her Son-in-Law, JD Vance, Wants to End It

  13-03-2025 17:01 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: CBS News - U.S. NewsAs U.S. colleges adapt to new federal policies aimed at ending programs related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), one school administrator is in a potentially tricky position. Lakshmi Chilukuri is the provost of the University of California San Diego's Sixth College, has served on the school's biological sciences diversity committee, and has written proudly of her school's commitment to diversity. She is also Vice President JD Vance's...
  
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• House Hearing Ends Abruptly After Republican Misgenders Trans Member

  13-03-2025 17:01 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthA congressional hearing came to a tense and abrupt ending Tuesday in a confrontation over how to identify the first openly transgender member of Congress. Representative Keith Self, the Texas Republican chair of the House Foreign Relations Subcommittee, started the confrontation by identifying Representative Sarah McBride of Delaware as "Mr. McBride." McBride, a Democrat elected in November, addressed Self as "Madam Chairman" before beginning to...
  
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• Trump's policies are destabilizing mental health care for veterans

  12-03-2025 20:34 via npr.org
  
  In the wake of federal firings and executive orders, providers and patients at the Department of Veterans Affairs say mental health and mental health care are suffering.
  
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• Schools use AI to monitor kids, hoping to prevent violence

  12-03-2025 20:33 via apnews.com
  
  These tools raise serious questions about privacy and security.
  
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• Frontiers of Knowledge Award Goes to Five Social Psychologists

  11-03-2025 16:03 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Social Psychology Network NewsThe 17th BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences has gone to five pioneering social psychologists—Icek Ajzen, Dolores Albarracín, Mahzarin Banaji, Anthony Greenwald, and Richard Petty—for "revolutionizing the way we understand and measure attitudes" with an influence that extends to "psychology, sociology, political science, education, health, economics and other areas." The award comes with 400,000 Euros split amon
  
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• Pentagon Abruptly Ends All Funding for Social Science Research

  11-03-2025 12:03 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: ScienceThe U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. In a press release issued late on Friday, the Department wrote that research it funds "must address pressing needs to develop and field advanced military capabilities." The DOD "does not do climate change crap," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote...
  
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• How to Strengthen Resistance to Misinformation Over Time

  11-03-2025 12:01 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science Daily - Top SocietyA new study has found that psychological interventions can enhance long-term resistance to misinformation. Dubbed "psychological booster shots," these interventions improve memory retention and help people recognize and resist misleading information more effectively over time. The study, published in Nature Communications, explores how different approaches—including text-based messages, videos, and online games—can inoculate people against...
  
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• 60 U.S. Universities Being Investigated for Campus Anti-Semitism

  11-03-2025 12:01 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google NewsThe U.S. Department of Education announced Monday it's investigating 60 colleges and universities over allegations of antisemitic harassment and discrimination. The warning comes after President Trump threatened to pull federal funding from colleges he accused of allowing "illegal protests" on campus. His administration on Friday cut $400 million in funding to Columbia University, citing the school's alleged "continued inaction" fighting...
  
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• DOGE Mischaracterizes a Study As Transgender, and USDA Cancels It

  11-03-2025 10:47 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: CBS News - U.S. NewsU.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins stated Friday that a $600,000 grant to Southern University in Louisiana was being revoked for studying "menstrual cycles in transgender men," in the latest mischaracterization of a grant that was canceled by the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency team, known as DOGE. The grant was actually intended for research on the potential health risks posed by synthetic feminine hygiene...
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Colorado Conversion Therapy Ban

  11-03-2025 10:44 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsThe U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a legal challenge to a Colorado law that bans conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ minors. Conversion therapy, which is banned in at least 23 states, attempts to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity. The high court agreed to hear the case brought by the conservative group Alliance Defending Freedom, which says the ban violates First Amendment rights by "censoring" client conversions.
  
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• Federal workers face mental health distress amid Trump cuts

  10-03-2025 20:32 via msnbc.com
  
  Federal workers facing mental health crises and an overwhelming sense of stress after losing their jobs in cuts to the workforce by the Trump administration.
  
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• Deadliest Phase of U.S. Fentanyl Crisis Eases, As All States See Recovery

  10-03-2025 17:18 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthThe deadliest phase of the street fentanyl crisis appears to have ended, as drug deaths continue to drop at an unprecedented pace. For the first time, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have now seen at least some recovery. A new analysis of U.S. overdose data conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina also found that the decline in deaths began much earlier than once understood, suggesting improvements may be...
  
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