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Caught in a Vicious Cycle? The Complex Interplay of Work Stressors and Burnout
A conflict with a coworker, time pressure, or technical issues – work-related stressors can take many forms. When work stressors accumulate, they can lead to burnout. However, recent research suggests that the interplay between work stressors and burnout is more complex than previously assumed. Could employees potentially be caught in a vicious cycle? / more
- written by Jette Völker
- edited by Jana Dreston
On the same wavelength—Do parents and children understand each other better if their brains are “in sync”?
Humans are social beings by nature. We often (unconsciously) imitate each other’s behaviors—think of yawning or laughing. Recent research shows that this imitation extends even beyond actions; it happens in our brains, too. State-of-the-art neuroimaging techniques reveal... / more
- written by Pascal Vrtička & Trinh Nguyen
How the voice gives away what you are feeling
People’s tone of voice changes when they are feeling different emotions. This helps people to recognize the feelings of others. / more
- written by Zoé Nikolakis, Sebastian Wallot & Oliver Genschow
- edited by Stella Wernicke
Trauma(tic) Media - What does it even look like?
Understanding how trauma appears in media and impacts vulnerable communities is important for researchers from various fields to investigate. However, to begin to understand this specific type of media, we must ask not what is traumatic media but what traumatic media looks like. This article evaluates the spectrum of what, I term, trauma(tic) media looks like. / more
- written by Kristen Leer
- edited by Jana Dreston
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The good, the bad, and the ugly of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty
The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty has been called a lot of things, from a “game changer” and “a breath of fresh air”, to “hypocritical”, “sexist”, and “sneaky”. So why has the campaign, whose major innovation was to use ads that featured real women rather than airbrushed models or celebrity spokespersons, sparked so much controversy? Taking... / more
- written by Angela Celebre & Ashley Waggoner Denton
- edited by Rosanna Guadagno & Reine van der Wal
That human touch that means so much: Exploring the tactile dimension of social life
Interpersonal touch is a fundamental but undervalued aspect of human nature. In the present article, the authors review psychological research showing that even fleeting forms of touch may have a powerful impact on our emotional and social functioning. Given its... / more
- written by Mandy Tjew A Sin & Sander Koole
- edited by Hans IJzerman
Intergroup Contact Theory: Past, Present, and Future
In the midst of racial segregation in the U.S.A and the ‘Jim Crow Laws’, Gordon Allport (1954) proposed one of the most important social psychological events of... / more
- written by Jim A. C. Everett
- edited by Diana Onu
No strings attached: Are “friends with benefits” as complicated in real life as they are in the movies?
Many people become “friends with benefits” to avoid drama and to have sex without getting tied up in emotions; however, the reality is that having a friend with benefits often becomes complicated. Why is that, and is there anything you can do to avoid these complexities? In... / more
- written by Justin J. Lehmiller
- edited by Dylan Selterman
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Everything was better in the past? Children’s self-regulation across the decades
Do you also believe, like most American adults, that children today have less... / more
Call for editors for a Special Issue on the “Psychology of Artificial Intelligence”
Are you an AI... / more
Phubbing: When love slips through the screen
We all know this situation: we want to tell the other person something, but they only have eyes for their smartphone. This behavior has a name: Phubbing.... / more