This week’s Psychology Around the Net covers artificial intelligence and psychiatry, a decline in teachers’ mental health, how to continue making progress, and more.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Here and It Wants to Revolutionize Psychiatry: Are we more comfortable sharing our true feelings and deepest secrets with a machine we assume won’t (or at least at this point in time, can’t) judge us or bring other uncomfortable consequences? Could artificial intelligence make a huge impact in psychology?
Whether Psychology Research Is Improving Depends On Whom You Ask: Results from a survey and an analysis of recently published research papers show that psychology is riddled with small sample sizes in studies, a strong pressure on professionals to publish, and an overall pessimism. However, they also suggest all is not lost.
Don’t Stop Reading to Your Kids Once They Learn How to Read: Aside from being just a fun way to spend time with your kids, reading to your children even after they’ve learned to read can provide benefits such as presenting intellectual challenges and helping them learn how to navigate some of life’s tough topics such as bullying, sexism, and racism.
Survey: Teachers’ Mental Health Declining Amid Job Stress: During a recent survey, 58% of nearly 5,000 educators rated themselves as having “not good” mental health for at least 7 days out of the previous 30, which is an increase from the 34% who answered similarly in 2015.
Scientists Identify Mechanism That Helps Us Inhibit Unwanted Thoughts: Scientists out of the University of Cambridge have identified a chemical in the brain’s “memory” region that helps people squash unwanted thoughts, which — if the chemical goes awry — could explain why people with anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and schizophrenia often have (and have trouble controlling) intrusive thoughts.
Make Continuous Progress Toward Your Goals with “Non-Zero Days”: Many of us set goals and work hard to achieve them only to get disheartened if we miss a day or two. Feels like we might as well give up, right? After all, we didn’t make any progress that day, did we? Maybe the “non-zero day” is for you, then.
from World of Psychology https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2017/11/04/psychology-around-the-net-november-4-2017/
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