Many women in rural Bangladesh have low power. How can social psychological insights help to strengthen the position of women? Madeline Langley, Farhana Tasnuva, and Nina Hansen set out to develop a social psychological training program for women’s empowerment in rural Bangladesh, building on needs that women voiced themselves.
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.
How does the experience of trauma impact women’s empowerment and economic participation over time? Social and clinical psychologists join efforts to follow the development of Bolivian girls over the next ten years.