Health Psychology

Sleep and Resilience Can Form a Virtuous Cycle for Teens

Sleep and Resilience Can Form a Virtuous Cycle for Teens

Resilience, or being able to bounce back from adverse events, is a useful skill to have – if we didn’t already know that, 2020 has certainly driven the point home! Psychologists know ...
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/ Health Psychology, Positive Psychology, Resilience, Sleep, Teens
Acceptance Can Reduce Momentary Pain

Acceptance Can Reduce Momentary Pain

Embracing the pain might be make the pain less painful. That’s more or less the takeaway from a new study, detailed in a paper in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. In the ...
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/ Health Psychology, Pain
How to Stop Touching Your Face

How to Stop Touching Your Face

Do you find your hand regularly creeping up toward your head, despite recent advice from public health experts to keep your fingers and your face firmly separated? If so, you’re not alone ...
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/ Behavioral Psychology, COVID, Health Psychology
Census Bureau Data Shows 2020 Brought a Spike in Anxiety and Depression

Census Bureau Data Shows 2020 Brought a Spike in Anxiety and Depression

From posttraumatic stress to sleep disturbances, recent studies have begun to confirm that the coronavirus pandemic has brought a range of mental health consequences. Now, an analysis of data from the US ...
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/ Anxiety, Clinical Psychology, COVID, Depression, Health Psychology
Optimists Sleep Better at Night

Optimists Sleep Better at Night

Do you ever wake up in the night and worry about what the future might hold? Well, if you’re an optimist, maybe not. A new study published in the Journal of Sleep ...
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/ Health Psychology, Optimism, Sleep
How to Enforce Social Distancing? Your Answer Might Depend on Who's Breaking the Rules

How to Enforce Social Distancing? Your Answer Might Depend on Who’s Breaking the Rules

An ethical question raised by the pandemic is what to do about people who don’t take it upon themselves to follow public health recommendations. Generally, there are two approaches: educate people and ...
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/ Behavioral Psychology, COVID, Health Psychology
The Most and Least Enjoyable Daily Activities During Quarantine

The Most and Least Enjoyable Daily Activities During Quarantine

Finding activities that bring positive emotions into your life has always been important, but it gained a new urgency when daily life was turned upside down by the pandemic. With lockdowns going ...
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/ Behavioral Psychology, COVID, Health Psychology
Looking at the Evidence for Health Warnings on Food and Alcohol

Looking at the Evidence for Health Warnings on Food and Alcohol

Scientists can show that some behavior has negative health consequences, but the question then becomes how to convince the public to actually engage in that behavior less. We know, for example, that ...
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/ Alcohol, Behavioral Psychology, Health Psychology, Nutrition
The Role of Press Releases in Overhyping Health Research Findings

The Role of Press Releases in Overhyping Health Research Findings

Today, things are going to get a little meta. I’m going to write about a scientific study about writing about scientific studies. The basic question up for investigation is: why do the ...
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/ Health Psychology, Research
Study Shows Uptick in Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms During Lockdown

Study Shows Uptick in Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms During Lockdown

In March, as public health officials around the world were dialing up measures against COVID-19’s spread, a group of researchers published an article in The Lancet highlighting the potential psychological consequences of ...
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/ Anxiety, Clinical Psychology, COVID, Health Psychology