Current reporting, research and professional developments across Psychology, curated for psychologists and behavioral-health professionals.
Posted August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley Will AI get you a better job? No, not by itself. Expecting AI to hand you a job is like expecting a calculator to put money in your bank account: It's simply not how…
Posted August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Warning: This post contains discussion of postpartum psychosis and a case involving child death. There are intentionally no descriptions of the case; however, some…
Emotion-regulation training helped students respond to negative experiences with less distress and altered communication between brain networks.
Posted August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk "What fun games have you been playing lately?" I ask this question at every visit when I have a patient I know likes to play video games. For someone who regularly…
Posted August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Much of the focus of conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) and suicide risk has been about how AI responds when a person is at risk. The specific concern is…
Once upon a time, being offered a cocktail in a can would have seemed like an insult. Cocktails were supposed to be shaken, stirred, garnished, and served in an appropriate glass. A can was reserved for cheaper drinks on…
Posted August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk I just got off a project that was told to do more with less. The realization didn’t come at first. The leader delivered the news well. There was no spin, no jargon, no…
Updated August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Lybi Ma By Chitra Raghavan, Ph.D., and Lisa Aronson Fontes, Ph.D. Both sides in contentious family court cases increasingly turn to artificial intelligence to analyze diaries and…
Posted August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk As a marriage counselor, I often ask couples, as a diagnostic tool, if the problems that brought them to therapy get better or worse when they’re on vacation. Best-case…
Posted August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan I recently rewatched Disney’s Tangled and had some difficulty articulating exactly why Mother Gothel was so evil and not a remarkably devoted parent. While she does keep…
Posted August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan Australia, Canada, France, Israel, Spain, Sweden, Japan, Chile, Denmark, and England. These are the nations, among others, the US has joined in issuing cell phone bans…
Updated August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk The Stoic Seneca (d. 65 CE) was the master of the "consolation," a letter written for the express purpose of comforting someone who has been bereaved. Seneca wrote at…
Posted August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk The advent of the GLP-1 and GIP agonist drugs has brought along with it an increased focus on “food noise.” Many people on one or both of those medications report a…
True crime’s popularity can be explained by human psychological mechanisms and social needs.
Updated August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk I woke up this morning to tragic news that is becoming all too familiar. Actress Hayden Panettiere is dead at age 36. Panettiere, by what anyone could see, had all the…
Posted August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan “Only mothers can think of the future — because they give birth to it in their children.” —Maxim Gorky The gut-brain axis depends on a healthy set of microbes — the…
Posted August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Tyler Woods Some ideas cement themselves into popular culture—the American dream, the tortured genius, the midlife crisis... And then there's the concept of the “alpha male”. Picture…
Posted August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk If I had to choose the defining psychological buzzword of this decade, it would be boundaries. It's a word I hear almost daily in my therapy room and increasingly in…
Posted August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan Domestic violence is an insidious form of interpersonal abuse, often invisible to others as it occurs behind closed doors. There are both physical and psychological…
Posted August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch I opened up my Instagram this morning and saw a reel suggesting that the best way to get followers is to stop telling stories and start "yapping." The instructions were…
Posted August 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk This post, in a manner of speaking, is about the weather. A father, we can call him Mike, told me something that sounded almost like a superpower. He said, âI can…
Recent research finds that becoming too psychologically entangled with your followers can make success feel like a trap.
Psychology says people who save money all year long to live the dream of enjoying the luxury lifestyle at least once aren't necessarily careless with money. This behavior can reflect a desire for ...
Psychology says people who are scared of closed spaces, spiders, crowds or any other such thing aren't always afraid of the object or place itself. Their fear can come from the possibility of losing ...
Artificial intelligence doesn’t simply make individuals more creative. Rather, it changes how creativity happens.
The snack tucked into someone's bag can sometimes represent more than simply having something to eat. It may provide a sense ofpreparedness, control and reassurance. That doesn't necessarily mean the ...
Healthy brain dynamics evolve in the direction far from thermodynamic equilibrium. The temporal asymmetry nature recently has been described in several normal and pathological brain states. However, whether the temporal…
Most adults have limited understanding of child development, yet their perceptions of development influence their decisions about whether to support childrenâs autonomyâsuch as support for autonomy-limiting…
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) online education is increasingly characterized by high cognitive demands and complex interactive environments, which makes task interruptions a critical factor…
Malware research primarily studies the results, the methods, and the impact. Even from an offensive security perspective, what is examined is the method, not the development strategy of the offender. This study…
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