Between 2001 and 2003, the Program for Research on Black Americans—founded and led by the late James S. Jackson—conducted “the most comprehensive and detailed study…
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I recently read Michele Harper’s memoir, The Beauty in Breaking, about her experience as an emergency room physician. In one chapter, she writes about people…
“Albert Bandura is Psychology legend.” Positive Voices features Macmillan’s beloved author, Albert Bandura, in their latest Positive Conversation interview with Larry King where Bandura speaks…
With a new school year approaching, NIMH is hosting a live question and answer session on its Instagram on August 11, 2020. Source: NIH
In the first of two Director’s Messages to mark the 10-year anniversary of the creation of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative, Dr. Gordon discusses…
“Together, the results from these studies suggest that individuals with social anxiety show an irregular attentional pattern when they are viewing emotional faces.” Eye Tracking…
It’s not very often we get to watch the birth of a social norm. Or at least not on this scale, nor at this speed.…
Globally, gay and bisexual men (GBM) face significant health risks as well as social challenges due to the stigma associated with their sexual orientation and/or…
A lot of my Intro Psych students struggle with the concept of cognitive dissonance. If circumstances, say, a pandemic, provide an example of cognitive dissonance,…
A scientific analysis of more than 2,000 brain scans found evidence for highly reproducible sex differences in the volume of certain regions in the human…