Researchers examined how Facebook's early rollout to colleges influenced mental health. What they found changes our understanding of what's harmful about social media.
Researchers examined how Facebook's early rollout to colleges influenced mental health. What they found changes our understanding of what's harmful about social media.
What predicts whether you will move up the income ladder in the U.S.? Having rich friends beats being smart, well-educated, or from a place with many jobs.
What predicts whether you will move up the income ladder in the U.S.? Having rich friends beats being smart, well-educated, or from a place with many jobs.
Psychologists and doctors have long thought that antidepressants worked by increasing low levels of serotonin in the brain. New research overturns this consensus.
Psychologists and doctors have long thought that antidepressants worked by increasing low levels of serotonin in the brain. New research overturns this consensus.
There is a mental health crisis among adolescents in the U.S. What can they learn from our response to school shootings like the one at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas?
There is a mental health crisis among adolescents in the U.S. What can they learn from our response to school shootings like the one at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas?
Around the world, teenagers are suffering worse mental health in the last decade. Social media may be a cause. Will Congress pass a law to enable more research into social media?
Around the world, teenagers are suffering worse mental health in the last decade. Social media may be a cause. Will Congress pass a law to enable more research into social media?
Even human children can solve certain problems that are too hard for modern AI. What does the struggle to build robots teach us about the special kind of genius humans possess?
Even human children can solve certain problems that are too hard for modern AI. What does the struggle to build robots teach us about the special kind of genius humans possess?
Tara Westover's "Educated" describes her experience growing up without a formal education. Yet other factors involved in the way she was raised prepared her for extremism.
Tara Westover's "Educated" describes her experience growing up without a formal education. Yet other factors involved in the way she was raised prepared her for extremism.
How can we have respectful and reasonable political disagreements? How do we change extreme views? A friendship and discussion group tackles these issues.
How can we have respectful and reasonable political disagreements? How do we change extreme views? A friendship and discussion group tackles these issues.
Even those of us who have no personal experience with traumatic events, like mass shootings, may respond to ambiguous information as if we do. Psychology helps explain why.
Even those of us who have no personal experience with traumatic events, like mass shootings, may respond to ambiguous information as if we do. Psychology helps explain why.
Can smiling make you feel happier? The science said one thing, which was repeated by journalists and commentators. Then the science said something else. Where are we now?
Can smiling make you feel happier? The science said one thing, which was repeated by journalists and commentators. Then the science said something else. Where are we now?
At any moment, someone’s aggravating behavior or our own bad luck can set us off on an emotional spiral that threatens to derail our entire day. Here’s how we can face our triggers with less reactivity so that we can get on with our lives.