“Dissonance is most painful when evidence strikes at the heart of how we see ourselves—when it threatens our belief that we are kind, ethical, competent,…
Posts published in “Psychiatric”
In 2017, I wrote a blog post about the federal law that mandates that at every institution of higher education in the United States that…
A large-scale study of U.S. teens shows associations between outdoor, artificial light at night and health outcomes. Source: NIH
On June 17, 2020, the psychological science community said goodbye to Anders Ericsson, who history will remember as the researcher who found that it takes…
“People with heightened conspiracy mentality appear to have adopted behaviors to prevent the spread of COVID-19 — at least until those behaviors were officially endorsed…
It’s valuable for students to learn a little bit about the researchers whose names plaster the insides of their textbooks. Each researcher comes from a…
With the number of coronavirus infections rising in a number of locations, it’s particularly disturbing to see how many of those new cases are in…
In this message, Dr. Gordon joins with 10 other NIH Institute Directors to spotlight NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative — a national call…
Johns Hopkins University is offering a free online course through Coursera titled Psychological First Aid. They estimate that the course takes six hours to finish.…
Use the APS 2020 (free) Virtual Poster Showcase to expose your Intro Psych students to some original psychological research. For these online discussion questions, students…