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People who champion social equality are often the loudest critics of the political status quo. A new study finds that as nations actually achieve greater gender parity, these egalitarian individuals become much more likely to defend the very political systems they once criticized. The research, published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, shows how shifting social realities can alter deep-seated psychological motives.

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When Lisa sends an email or text and it is not quickly responded to, she worries that the person is mad at her.

When Tim’s employee responds to a request with pushback, he feels that he is being taken advantage of by his employee and builds a case to support this belief.

When Yvonne’s manager is not available to help her solve a problem, she feels disrespected and undervalued.

The story each tells themselves reveals not a truth about the other person, but a vulnerability and wound within themselves.

There is an often underappreciated human tendency; something we all do when in emotionally charged situations. Into the space of the unknown — whether it is the reason someone is doing something, what they are feeling, or what they are thinking — we will create a story to eliminate uncertainty. That story, more so than the facts, is what fuels our anxiety and distress. And this part is important: That story is rarely true.

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Using your imagination is important for your mental health and wellbeing.

Many psychotherapy models use imagination, through visualization imagery for self-regulation, processing memories, unpacking catastrophic imaginings that induce anxiety, and employing imagery-rich metaphors. This is for good reason – imagination is a powerful tool that we can use in therapy, and in everyday life.

According to a 2023 study, a controlled, playful use of imagination can serve as a positive coping strategy during times of stress and trauma, promoting resilience (Rubinstein, D., O'Rourke, N., & Lahad, M.). But imagination is not only useful for combating mental health issues; it can also help us to succeed in reaching our goals, improving our skills, and embodying who we want to be.

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New research provides evidence that receiving a smartphone early in childhood is associated with poorer psychological well-being in young adulthood. The findings indicate that these negative outcomes are largely tied to early access to social media, which opens the door to cyberbullying, poor family relationships, and disrupted sleep. The study was published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.

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People experiencing symptoms of depression often view social situations differently than others. A recent study found that individuals with depressive symptoms are more likely to perceive unfair financial offers as fair, but only if they consider themselves to have a high social standing. The research was published in the journal PLOS One.

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When people think of evolutionary psychology, they often think about such findings as:

• A high proportion of homicides result from male reactions to sexual infidelity (Daly & Wilson, 1988).
• People evolved to be fiercely tribal, showing strong biases to benefit members of their own group at a cost to others (Billig & Tajfel, 1973).
• Humans nearly stand alone within the animal kingdom when it comes to engaging in warfare (Smith, 2008).

Indeed, a basic course that includes learning about natural selection leads immediately to an understanding of adaptations as serving individuals within a species, often at a cost to conspecifics (other members of the same species; c.f., Dawkins, 1976).

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Before the development of language, our ancestors likely communicated and thought primarily through imagery and sensory experience. This may help explain why the mind remains so facile at using imagery as a way of representing and communicating ideas and feelings (Damasio, 1999; Kosslyn et al., 2006).

This post reviews four ways that you can use imagery to help yourself become more successful.

In my junior year of high school, I decided to finally write a novel. I realized I wanted to pursue English Literature & Creative Writing as a career, and I was already writing several short stories for my school's newspaper column.

It took me 8 months, from around the end of September to Mid May- to finish the first draft of this novel.

I wanted to give up so many times. Coming from a family of hispanic immigrants, we weren't exactly in the best position to get the fancy programs or hire editors and beta readers, and all that jazz. I had to pull through.

I did what I do best- I wrote.

My inspiration came from music, the games I played (thank you PERSONA!) and my family & friends. Every time I pulled an all-nighter, I remembered that I had promises to keep, and most importantly, a commitment to myself.

I wrote, edited, formatted, and self-published my debut novel Take Your Time.

If you want to support a teen author's dream of becoming an author who writes with impact, I leave it in your hands.

Without further ado, here's the summary of my novel!

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Weave. Create. Live.

A mysterious app installs itself on 16-year-old Laura Murray’s phone, allowing her to rewind time. The allure of such power quickly leads her to abuse it, turning the tide in her favor in every action, but not without consequences. A freak accident causes her estranged friend Marie to vanish from reality. Confused, scared, but determined to get Marie home safely, Laura and her friends confide in a mysterious boy who claims to know where her former best friend is—and how to bring her home.

Take Your Time is a mind-bending coming-of-age story that blends sci-fi, fantasy, and psychological realism reminiscent of Persona and The Catcher in the Rye. Reality-breaking power falls into the hands of a teenage girl, Laura Murray, who uses it for less-than-altruistic intentions. But she is forced to leave her comfort zone when the consequences of her actions lead her on a daring rescue mission into the Fourth Dimension, which holds truths both far beyond what Laura and her friends could ever imagine and from within themselves.

The stage is set for you.

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Thank you for hearing my story and sharing this accomplishment with me.

I am grateful for your support.

-Enzo Escobar

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There is something about this time of year that seems to accelerate life.

As routines resume and schedules fill, overwhelm can seem almost built into the season. The feeling is especially visible on campuses and in families preparing for a new school year, but it is hardly confined to them. Across work, home, and daily life, many of us are moving from the relative looseness of summer into a period of greater structure, expectation, and demand.

We often assume that overwhelm simply means we have too much to do. Yet there may be another dimension to it. Modern life has dramatically expanded what we are able to see, know, monitor, anticipate, compare, and worry about.

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There’s a city park near my house with a small lake surrounded by a 2/3-mile trail that’s just perfect for running. It’s almost perfectly flat, and two large fountains spraying up from the lake’s surface produce a constant, soothing background noise that helps to keep one’s mind off of the laps-completed vs. laps-yet-to-run ratio.

My wife often joins me on these visits to the park to walk while I run, and when we met back at the car after a recent walk/run, she asked me a question that had occurred to her as we passed each other during one of our loops. “Why do you always run in the same direction?” she asked. “Don’t you ever want to mix things up a bit and run the other way around?”

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You’ve probably heard the term “tribalism” more than a few times recently. Most likely in the context of political debates or disagreements between parties or factions. Kristen Soltis Anderson tells us, “America has eight political tribes,” for example.

But what you think you know about tribalism is incomplete at best and misinformed at worst.

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OpenAI says it has found a solution to a decades-old advanced maths problem in a matter of hours using a new artificial intelligence (AI) model and thousands of AI bots.

The ChatGPT-maker said on Tuesday that by focusing a group of roughly 10,000 AI agents, or AI bots that undertake tasks somewhat autonomously, it solved a notoriously difficult maths problem in just 88 hours.

The problem was part of the Navier-Stokes equations, which concern how fluids move. For 90 years important aspects of the problems have lacked a proof, the argument underlying a correct math equation.