How is your nutrition (or lack thereof) affecting your mental health? Could you be an “amateur social psychologist” and not know it? Why does smelling your significant other’s clothes help lower stress?
We’re diving into all these and more in this week’s Psychology Around the Net!
Why Nutritional Psychiatry Is the Future of Mental Health Care: Although it isn’t quite yet accepted by mainstream medicine, nutritional psychiatry — which focuses on using food and supplements to help treat mental health disorders — is on the rise.
Accidentally Famous: The Psychology of Going Viral: Professionals weigh in on the psychology behind, beside, and in front of “going viral” and a few of YouTube’s earliest stars give us some insight on how that accidental fame impacted their lives.
Study: Sad, Lonely People More Likely to Be ‘Natural’ Social Psychologists: Yale psychologists have found that introverted people prone to melancholy and strangers to rose-colored glasses are pretty good at assessing humans’ social nature without having any formal training or tools. (Interested in finding out if you’re one of these “natural” social psychologists? Take Yale’s Are You a Natural Social Psychologist? quiz and find out.)
The Best Medicine for America’s Mental Health Crisis: HINT: You’re not going to find it at your local pharmacy.
5 Ways to Use Psychology to Make Your Colleagues Like You More: That title might sound like you’re in for some super manipulative relationship hacks, but most of these actually are just good salt-of-the-earth tips on how to strengthen relationships with your colleagues (and probably various other people in your life).
Smelling a Sweetie’s Clothes May Lower Stress: I’m willing to bet that no one who’s ever stolen their significant other’s hoodie is surprised by this!
from World of Psychology https://psychcentral.com/blog/psychology-around-the-net-march-24-2017/
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