Category: Articles

  • College Anxiety and Depression Upswing

    PsychCentral:  More College Students with Depression, Anxiety More college students are grappling with depression and anxiety disorders than they did a decade ago, according to research presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association. And with greater diagnoses of depression and anxiety has come a related rise in the number of college students on psychiatric…

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  • Trust

      ScienceDaily:  Trusting people make better lie detectors Trusting others may not make you necessarily a fool or a Pollyanna, according to a study in the current Social Psychological and Personality Science. Instead it can be a sign that you’re smart…

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  • Does Venting Anger Help?

    Does venting anger help?  YANSS looks at the research. The Misconception: Venting your anger is an effective way to reduce stress and prevent lashing out at friends and family. The Truth: Venting increases aggressive behavior over time. Related: Angry People Want To Be Rewarded (PsychCentral).

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  • But Will It Make You Happy?

    Stuff v. Happiness in the NYT: A two-bedroom apartment. Two cars. Enough wedding china to serve two dozen people.  Yet Tammy Strobel wasn’t happy. Working as a project manager with an investment management firm in Davis, Calif., and making about $40,000 a year, she was, as she put it, caught in the “work-spend treadmill.”  So…

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  • Modern Love

      Diane Johnson looks dating and marriage in a NYRB review. It used to be that on a date, the boy would pay for a Pepsi and the movie; that was it. Lori Gottlieb, in Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough, estimates the cost to today’s woman of four months of dating, counting…

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