Psychology – Neritam

American Psychological Association’s Embrace of U.S. Torture Program

A military judge at Guantánamo has thrown out the confessions of a Saudi man because he had been subjected to waterboarding and other forms of … American Psychological Association’s Embrace of U.S. Torture ProgramRead more

As a 10th-grader growing up in Bergen, Norway, Mia Chamberlain dreaded when her science class lesson was on climate change. She’d often skip those classes … The next climate battle in the courts is over mental healthRead more

When parents in countries worldwide use spanking as a behavior deterrent, their children are more likely to become a victim of physical abuse, say University … Physical abuse less likely when spanking is eliminatedRead more

Facebook officials had internal research in March 2020 showing that Instagram – the social media platform most used by adolescents – is harmful to teen … Facebook Has Known for 18 Months That Instagram Is Bad for TeensRead more

Alice Pailhès — source ted.com | May 2020 [think about how much priming happening to us through movies, media, social control media]

Social media platforms like Twitter amplify expressions of moral outrage over time because users learn such language gets rewarded with an increased number of “likes” … ‘Likes’ and ‘shares’ teach people to express more outrage onlineRead more

phone foyer method. This strategy was innovated by parents who were worried about the negative effects of using their phone too much around their kids, … Leave your phone in a fixed location at homeRead more

In response to #MentalHealthAwareness week, we explore five ways in which our growth-obsessed capitalist economy threatens our mental health. Working class people are struggling to … Our broken economic system is damaging our mental healthRead more

Chris Titus Tech

The serotonin hypothesis of depression is still influential. We aimed to synthesise and evaluate evidence on whether depression is associated with lowered serotonin concentration or … The serotonin theory of depression don’t have enough proofRead more