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Mastering Emotions: How Emotion Regulation Can Boost Your Athletic Performance
Imagine standing on a balance beam. Your heart races, your palms sweat—your body is primed for peak performance. Now comes the crucial decision: how will you steer your emotions? Will you let the tension paralyze you, or harness it as your driving force? Emotion regulation doesn’t mean avoiding fear; it means transforming it into focus and confidence. In... / more
- written by Mira Fauth-Bühler
- edited by Charikleia Lampraki
Plant-based, insect-based, or cultivated meat alternatives—Why do we (not) consume them?
Meat alternatives have become a fixture on supermarket shelves. While people have been consuming plant-based alternatives for a long time, the consumption of insects and, in the future, cultivated meat faces major challenges. What factors drive people to consume meat... / more
- written by Lena Szczepanski, Milan Büscher, Lene Strootmann & Florian Fiebelkorn
Self-Care in the Digital Age: How We Can Handle Social Media in a Healthy Way
Do you find it difficult to reduce the time you spend on social media in the long term? Are you interested in learning why you often use social media excessively and what... / more
- written by Marvin Holtwiesche & Mira Fauth-Bühler
Language models: A new perspective on language and cognition
How do computers help us understand language acquisition? What do ChatGPT and text readability scores have in common? Language models are no longer just a useful technology; they are a window into our own linguistic abilities. Discover how these systems not only... / more
- written by Sam Boeve
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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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Why Christmas (Feels Like It) Comes Faster Each Year
Christmas is just around the corner, and with it comes that familiar sense that time is speeding up. Do you feel the same way? In this blog post, you’ll... / more
Learning interdisciplinarity: The solution to societal challenges?
Anyone who has worked in a team knows the challenges: differing perspectives often clash. However, what happens when it’s not just opinions that diverge,... / more
Does emotional labor also exist in sex?
Emotional labor refers to suppressing or altering one’s own feelings in order to enhance another person’s well-being. But does... / more