The Washington Post
The pandemic could drive another national health crisis, GAO warns: Anxiety
5 min · · Behavioral health issues, including substance abuse, are up as people suffer from covid-19 related anxiety and depression, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. · Shared by 9, including Carly
PsyBlog
How Not Having Children Affects Your Happiness
2 min · · Are people who choose not to have children any less happy, or perhaps happier, than those who do have children? · Shared by 8, including Carly
cls.ucl.ac.uk
Poor mental health is more prevalent among teenage girls from poorer backgrounds, new findings show
2 min · · News 19 May 2018 New findings published by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) during Mental Health Awareness Week have revealed how teenage girls from less well-off families are more likely to… · Shared by 8, including Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Carly
The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children and young people in the UK: what the research says
3 min · · Some studies, but not all, suggest a deterioration in youth mental health. · Shared by 9, including Carly, Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
FiveThirtyEight
The Science Behind Those Comfy, Cozy Holiday Feelings
5 min · · What makes a house a home? How do you spread tidings of comfort and joy around your apartment? Will roasting chestnuts on an open fire really make you feel like… · Shared by 12, including Carly, Maggie Koerth
Aeon+Psyche
Psychology can help us as individuals avert the climate crisis
6 min · · From the ‘value-action gap’ to the ‘moral licensing effect’, insights from psychology can help individuals become greener · Shared by 92, including Carly
Nautilus Magazine
Can You Die From a Broken Heart?
9 min · · Ruth and Harold “Doc” Knapke met in elementary school. They exchanged letters during the war, when Doc was stationed in Germany.… · Shared by 12
Scientific American
COVID Is Driving a Children’s Mental Health Emergency
4 min · · Deaths of parents and other terrible experiences have hurt hundreds of thousands, so new initiatives are trying to help families in pain · Shared by 46, including Jo Hemmings 🇺🇦, Miguel Angel Escotet, Carly, Ben Miller, Philanthropy News Digest, Patrick J. Kennedy
Darius Foroux
Why Short-Term Solitude Makes You a Better Thinker
5 min · · By adding more solitude and listening to our own thoughts, we can improve our thinking. And come up with authentic ideas and judgments. · Shared by 330, including Carly
TED Talks
3 steps to having difficult conversations
· What’s your elephant in the room? Every group — whether it’s a family or a team in the workplace — has one: an uncomfortable, complicated or charged conversation that hasn’t happened but needs to. … · Shared by 406, including Carly
Farnam Street
How a Decision Journal Changed the Way I make Decisions (Template Included)
6 min · · A decision journal helps you learn from your past decisions, think through current decisions, and avoid problems before they happen. · Shared by 978, including Vincenzo Tremonte, Arturo Rebolledo, Neil Hart 💙, Kaspar Manz, Gabriele, Mario Clemente, Carly, Prithvi Raju M, Thomas Pleil, Teresa Torres
TED Talks
Where does consciousness come from? And how do our brains create it? A look at one of life’s biggest mysteries
5 min · · Within each of our minds, the activity of billions of neurons gives rise to a conscious experience — and not just any experience, yours, right here, right now. How does this happen? ThereR… · Shared by 262, including Arin Basu, Carly, Lee Keyes, Matteo Furia
TED Talks
Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality
· What makes you, you? Psychologists like to talk about our traits, or defined characteristics that make us who we are. But Brian Little is more interested in moments when we transcend those traits.… · Shared by 268, including Carly
Ness Labs
How to measure meaning in life
4 min · · Meaningfulness is associated with greater well-being, and scientists have even devised ways to measure meaning in life. · Shared by 801, including Gabriele, Neil Hart 💙, Phillip Murphy, Carly, Dennis Schvejda, Jennifer Hurst, Anne-Laure Le Cunff
The Atlantic
When You Can’t Change the World, Change Your Feelings
6 min · · Adjusting your attitude is easier than you think. · Shared by 98, including Carly, sarcastic_f, Ian M Calvert, Neuroskeptic 🇺🇦, Harpreet Singh, Guy Kawasaki, Arthur Brooks
Aeon+Psyche
The virtue of honesty requires more than just telling the truth
8 min · · Honesty has fallen out of fashion, yet it is essential to self-improvement. How can we cultivate this neglected virtue? · Shared by 524, including Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Anita Leirfall, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Scott Monty, Carly