Philadelphia Psychology Network

"A new study provides evidence that intellectual humility is related to how people perceive their political opponents."

We're not just working on anti-racism 'After Hours.' For many podcasts this season we are researching and learning about issues, ideas, people, and history to ...bring truths about our history and systemic racism into the light. We start today with RedLining - A practice of discrimination in lending that promoted segregation and helped create the wealth gap in a huge way. An old word, an old practice that still goes on in new ways today. shrinksonthird.com/redlining See more

"Since we spend so much time living in the future, it makes us happy to feel that the future is full of possibilities for improvement, and that we have some control over making those possibilities into realities. In contrast, a near-perfect cocktail for misery is pessimism and low personal control over our circumstances."

Urgent alert regarding proposed Medicare changes. We all need to voice our concerns as soon as possible Medicare is proposing changes that would, among other things, reduce payments to psychologists by 10.6%. This is serious!! Even if you do not take Medicare commercial insurers usually decide their reimbursements based on a percentage of Medicare payments. Psychology rates for payment would be diminished by this action and psychologists do the yeoman's share of the psychothe...Continue reading

"It is no longer one patient who might remind us of ourselves, our family, or our friends and their struggles, it is every single one of them... Right now, we're facing the same struggles in our personal lives, too."

"...some people are less able to discard (or inhibit) information from their working memory that is no longer relevant to the task at hand... Research on cognitive aging indicates that, in adulthood, this ability declines considerably with advancing age, suggesting that older adults may also be especially vulnerable to fake news. Another reason why cognitive ability may predict vulnerability to fake news is that it correlates highly with education. Through education, people may develop meta-cognitive skillsstrategies for monitoring and regulating one’s own thinkingthat can be used to combat the effects of misinformation."

"The two groups who resisted conventional gender normsresister boys and relational girlswere found to be 'better academically adjusted' and typically did well in exams. The lowest overall performers were the 'cool guys' and 'tough guys'."

"The findings suggest a path to personalizing the choice of therapy not by doing brain scans on everyone with OCD... but by using everyday tests that measure the kinds of characteristics that might predict better success with one therapy or the other."

"Participants showed resilience to the stress and isolation of physical distancing and were able to maintain virtual contact with friends and family to avoid social isolation. Yet, their quality of life is lower, and they worry continued physical distancing will be detrimental to their mental health. Lastly, respondents expressed outrage by an inadequate governmental response to the pandemic."

...we believe that taking the psychologically rich life seriously will deepen broaden, and yes, enrichen our understanding of well-being.

"These observations have the potential to provide a framework for precision medicine that utilizes both genetic variation and phenotypic markers for early intervention and treatment

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