Friendships are important, but are they always healthy? New research finds that teens who feel dominated by their friends experience lower self-esteem and more symptoms of anxiety and depression.
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Understanding the why of procrastination is key to breaking the habit.
Female statistics students had higher final exam grades than their male peers, even though they had less confidence in their statistics abilities at the start of the semester.
Obese persons are regularly associated with laziness and inactivity in Ghanaian society.
Non-standard ways of speaking are often deemed inferior, affecting schooling, social lives and job prospects.
Intellectual self-image matters because it’s often a self-fulfilling prophecy: if you think you can’t, you won’t.
Skin-shade prejudice can have a lasting impact both on people’s self-confidence and on who they in turn find attractive. Understanding how it works is key to resisting it.
Comparing ourselves to people who are worse off than we are on social media should make us feel better. The opposite is true.
A growing body of research points to the body’s natural cannabinoid system as the primary driver behind the runner’s high – and the mental health boost and stress relief following exercise.
There is ample research about how harmful Instagram is for teen girls, especially around body image. It turns out Facebook’s own research confirms it.
Teaching circus arts — from juggling to trapeze — in physical education classes increased children’s physical literacy, resilience and participation, with greater gender equity.
A new study finds that women are just as likely as men to assume something’s wrong with a woman who decides she wants to sleep with a handful of partners.
Relying solely on job placement as an indicator of successful intervention misses out on outcomes that are equally important, or more so, amid high structural unemployment.
Good mental health is the ability to adapt to changes and stress. Whatever school looks like, parents can help keep kids’ social-emotional development on track in these four areas.
The perception that you are negatively treated because of your background is psychologically damaging.
Psychologists have identified the characteristics of ‘moral rebels’ who make the tough choice to stand up for their principles in the face of negative consequences.
On your daily walk take in real people. It might make you kinder to your own body during the Coronavirus lockdown
Early intervention with reading challenges has very high success rates for supporting reading development, but it is much more difficult to improve reading skills in older students.
“Sadfishers” are people who post sensitive or emotional personal material online to gain sympathy or attention. But this behaviour might actually indicate a deeper psychological issue.
Do your Instagram viewing habits trigger joy or guilt? New research shows that viewing body positive content may actually improve women’s body image – at least in the short term.
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychology, Monmouth University
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Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
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Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Surrey
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Associate Professor in Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam
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Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics Deputy Director, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham
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Associate professor, University of Bergen
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Professor in Sport and Learning, University of Wolverhampton
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John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Lecturer, University of Leicester
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Research fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Health Studies, Texas Woman's University
