Facing stress from daily adversities? The research presented in this blog post supports the idea that listening to music can significantly reduce physiological and psychological stress responses, making it a powerful tool for harmonizing your stress response.
This is the third installment of Mindwise’s “new and noteworthy books” feature: an overview of interesting new psychology books and resources that have become available recently in our library collection.
Martijn van Zomeren doesn’t hate hope. But he certainly thinks hope is overrated. Recent research found that when people were more hopeful about solving climate change, they were not more motivated to do anything about it. Hoping may thus make us feel better, while doom is coming to the world.
Today, Jolien van Breen will defend her dissertation in which she demonstrates that members of disadvantaged groups can resist subtle cues of social devaluation, such as implicit stereotypes. That is, she demonstrates that members of disadvantaged groups are more resilient than previously thought.
Major life events such as experiencing a flood or the death of a child may feel very unjust. Oftentimes people seek to find causes for such events. To better understand such explanations, we asked ourselves the question who people see as actually distributing (in)justice in the world.