Psychology news

• Forgive and forget? Both sides must be accountable after a family fallout

  08-05-2025 21:17
  
  Prince Harry and King Charles will need to put past grievances to one side if they are to move on from their estrangement, experts sayFor most families, fallouts and squabbles are a regular occurrence. But what happens when those rifts deepen to an estrangement, such as appears to have beset the royal family and the Beckhams, and how can relationships be rebuilt?According to the following psychologists and psychotherapists, family reconciliation requires both sides taking accountability for thei
  
  Read more

• Chris Gathercole obituary

  08-05-2025 18:49
  
  My father, Chris Gathercole, who has died aged 87, was a pioneering clinical psychologist. He was an advocate for people with learning disabilities being involved in decisions about themselves and for them to be independent.He worked at large hospitals in Glasgow, Liverpool, North Wales and Lancashire, where he introduced innovative American concepts such as “social role valorisation”. The idea behind it was to improve the lives of those with disabilities, emphasising the importance
  
  Read more

• ‘An optimal state of consciousness’: is flow the secret to happiness?

  08-05-2025 18:00
  
  It can happen when doing ‘just about anything’ – experts share how to get ‘in the zone’, and what can pull you outWhat is the secret to happiness? In a 2004 Ted Talk, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi boldly claimed to have the answer: flow.Flow is the experience of being completely absorbed in a particular task. Sometimes we call it being “in the zone”. Csikszentmihalyi described it in his Ted Talk as an “effortless, spontaneous feeling”
  
  Read more

• White House Launches Anti-Semitism Probe Into University of Washington

  08-05-2025 07:27 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsThe Trump administration launched a review into recently alleged anti-Semitic activity at the University of Washington and its affiliated campuses. Government officials announced the probe a day after roughly 30 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested at the school's Seattle campus when they occupied an engineering building and demanded the university sever its ties with Boeing, which donated $10 million for the building in 2022.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Want to Know Your Alzheimer's Risk? Many People Don't

  08-05-2025 07:27 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthNew research reveals a gap between people's stated desire to know their Alzheimer's disease risk and their real-life decisions when results are actually offered. In a study published in JAMA Network Open, only 60% of participants chose to learn their estimated risk when given the chance, despite 81% expressing prior interest. The main reasons for declining to know included concerns about anxiety, burden on family, and the lack of effective...
  
  Read more

• Teen Mental Health: When to Seek Help and What Parents Can Do

  08-05-2025 07:27 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: BBC News - UK NewsThere are biological reasons why certain mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression, are common in adolescence. For example, emotional reactions are intensified by hormones and changes to the internal body clock that affects sleep patterns. So, when should teens and parents regard emotions and behavior as normal, and when should they consider seeking professional help? Mental health experts weigh in with useful advice.
  
  Read more

• Climate Change: The Future of Today's Young People

  08-05-2025 07:27 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science DailyClimate research suggests that millions of today's young people will live through unprecedented lifetime exposure to heatwaves, crop failures, river floods, droughts, wildfires, and tropical storms under current climate policies. If global temperatures rise by 3.5 C by 2100, 92% of children born in 2020 will experience unprecedented heatwave exposure. Meeting the Paris Agreement's 1.5 C target could protect millions of them from this risk.
  
  Read more

• Surviving 200 snake bites, decoding ancient scrolls and the countries ‘flourishing’ – podcast

  08-05-2025 06:00
  
  Science correspondent Hannah Devlin joins Ian Sample to discuss three intriguing science stories from the week, from a global study that puts the UK third from bottom when it comes to flourishing, to a man who intentionally suffered more than 200 snake bites in the quest to find a universal antivenom and a breakthrough in the quest to understand the contents of the charred Herculaneum scrolls buried when Mount Vesuvius eruptedUK among lowest-ranked countries for ‘human flourishing’ i
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

Follow @PsychologyUKnws on Twitter!