Category: Articles
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College Anxiety and Depression Upswing
Read more: College Anxiety and Depression UpswingPsychCentral: 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
Read more: TrustScienceDaily: 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?
Read more: 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?
Read more: 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
Read more: Modern LoveDiane 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…