Neil Petersen
Neil has been blogging for AllPsych for over five years, focusing mostly on how current research in psychology applies to the real world. He has read over 1,000 psychology studies and, while he is not a psychologist, he has learned a lot about how psychology impacts all of us.
You can read his blog posts below.
Mapping People’s Perceptions of Extreme Weather in the US
By this point, meteorologists have collected enough information to build detailed maps of weather across the United States. But a team of researchers in Oklahoma ...
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Why Do People Gild the Lily? Curiosity, Maybe
Sometimes people don’t accept "good enough," and they pursue perfection with counterproductive, or even disastrous, results. This phenomenon is so common that we have multiple ...
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Helping Others Makes Toddlers Happy
A finding that comes up again and again in psychology research is that people feel better when they take prosocial actions, which is why helping ...
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Therapy Can Be as Effective Online as In Person
From Zoom happy hours to remote learning, one thing most of us have discovered this year is that doing something “virtually” isn’t always as good ...
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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 ...
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