Mental Health
Enhancing Mental Health: Explore ways to broaden your understanding of mental health and find solutions to lead a happier, healthier, and less-stressful life. Discover how mental health is inextricably linked to physical health and well-being.
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Walk This Way: Personality Traits That Predict Fitness Success
Everyone knows that consistent physical exercise is vital to a healthy body and mind, but “less than a quarter of US adults reach the nationally recommended amount of regular exercise” (p. 1). An expanding body of research continues to investigate why people fail to consistently exercise. Many interventions attempt to induce behavior change and increase…
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Dissect Your Demons: Expressive Writing Neutralizes Workplace Retribution
A leading proponent of the psychological benefits of journaling, Andrew Huberman has extensively reviewed research and made recommendations for journaling to address difficult, even traumatic, experiences. Among the proposed benefits of journaling, Huberman claims that journaling about a difficult life experience can bring not only improved mental health but also enhanced physical health and long-lasting…
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Spreading Like a Virus? Alcohol Use Contagion Effects
Social contagions spread from person to person, much like viruses. Unlike viruses, social contagions involve the interpersonal spread of attitudes, emotions, and behavior within a specific social network. An important distinction between social contagion and conformity is that social contagion is spread without intent. To date social contagion has been observed in such disparate phenomenon…
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Is a Negativity Bias Justified in News Reports?
Many prior studies have documented the predominant tone of news content across news agencies (newspapers, television, news magazines, and citizen journalists). News stories lean heavily toward negative rather than positive content, and can even lead viewers to experience visceral physiological reactions.[1] “If it bleeds, it leads” aptly describes how news media skews toward negative content.…
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Over-Prescribed or Under-Diagnosed?
Psychotropic Medications for Children Psychotropic medications, which can alter mood, perception, cognition, and behavior, have become a commonplace treatment for psychiatric disorders, eclipsing even the use of psychotherapy as a preferred treatment.[1] Children ages 0-18 also receive psychotropic meds to treat a variety of disorders including ADHD/ADD, anxiety, depression, psychosis and other disorders. Applying psychopharmacology…
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Breaking Bad (Habits): The Path from Thoughts to Actions
Health promotion is a burgeoning industry backed by governments, the World Health Organization, researchers, even entrepreneurs looking to make a buck. According to the World Health Organization’s website, “health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health.” Governmental health promotion efforts extend to people of all ages…