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09/2026

Teamwork today and tomorrow: The skills that matter and how to build them
- written by
- Lara Watermann,
- Natalie Hogh,
- Joshua Braun,
- Simone Kubowitsch
Teams today collaborate across screens, time zones, and digital tools, but better technology does not always mean better teamwork. Hybrid meetings, information overload, and workflows supported by artificial intelligence (AI) create new challenges. Drawing on expert insights and psychological research, this article explores which team skills matter most and how teams can build them.
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Magazine Issue

08/2026 - Special issue on artificial intelligence

Benefits and risks of asking AI for health advice
- written by
- Jaroslava Kaňková
Can ChatGPT become your new health advisor – or even your therapist? Generative AI tools are changing how we access health information, offering speed and convenience like never before. But alongside the benefits come real risks. This article explores the promise and pitfalls of AI in non-clinical health settings.
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Magazine Issue

08/2026 - Special issue on artificial intelligence

Doctor, meet AI: How AI systems influence human decision-making in healthcare
- written by
- Julia Cecil,
- Selina Angerer,
- Eesha Kokje,
- Susanne Gaube,
- Anne-Kathrin Kleine,
- Eva Lermer
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing healthcare, from enhancing radiology diagnoses to supporting mental health treatment. But while it promises efficiency and accuracy, its integration raises questions of trust, bias, and decision-making dynamics. Will AI become an indispensable medical partner, or will barriers hinder its adoption? This article explores AI’s expanding role, its impact on healthcare professionals, and the road ahead.
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Magazine Issue

08/2026 - Special issue on artificial intelligence

Editorial for the special issue "Artificial intelligence, real consequences: Exploring the psychological dimensions of AI"
- written by
- Magdalena Wischnewski,
- Stella Wernicke
Not long ago, artificial intelligence was mostly found in science fiction and computer science departments. Today, it drafts our emails, recommends our next purchase, tutors our children, and occasionally tells us it understands how we feel. This shift has happened so quickly that our psychological vocabulary is still catching up. What does it mean to trust a system that has no body, no history, and no stake in the outcome but communicates like us? Why do we sometimes treat a chatbot with the same politeness we'd extend to a colleague, and other times discard it the moment it makes a...
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In-Mind Blog

Join the In-Mind team: Help us make psychology accessible to everyone!

written by: Rinat Meerson, Stella Wernicke, Jana Dreston
Magazine Issue 09/2026

Teamwork today and tomorrow: The skills that matter and how to build them

written by: Lara Watermann, Natalie Hogh, Joshua Braun, Simone Kubowitsch
In-Mind Blog

After "Adolescence": What we know (and don’t know) about gender attitudes and online misogyny

written by: Kate Schramm, Silvana Weber
Magazine Issue 08/2026 - Special issue on artificial intelligence

Benefits and risks of asking AI for health advice

written by: Jaroslava Kaňková

Magazine Issue 01/2019

Refugees wel(l)come: The impact of social support on refugees’ well-being

written by: Ina-Maria Döring

To date, the refugee crisis has been a central issue for society and associated with several challenges. This article focuses on the well-being of refugees as a basis for successful... more
Magazine Issue 01/2019

From Pervasive Beliefs To Wrongful Convictions

written by: Enide Maegherman, Robert Horselenberg, Karl Ask, Peter J. Van Koppen

Popular series like “Making a Murderer” and “The Confession Tapes” have raised public awareness of the possibility of wrongful convictions. Can cognitive psychology resolve why evidence of innocence is overlooked in... more
Magazine Issue 01/2019

Sorry, Not Sorry: Apologies and Denials in the #MeToo Movement

written by: Chris Reinders Folmer

The #MeToo-movement publicly confronts alleged perpetrators of sexual misconduct with their transgressions. In return, the accused often struggle with the question of how to reply. What can research about trust... more
Magazine Issue 09/2018

The Effect of Acute Stress on Memory: How It Helps and How It Hurts

written by: Carey Marr, Melanie Sauerland, Henry Otgaar, Conny Quaedflieg, Lorraine Hope

Although we often perceive the effect of stress negatively, research suggests that stress effects are not always detrimental. This review paper examines the impact that acute stress has on memory... more
Magazine Issue 09/2018

Risk assessment tools and criminal reoffending: Does bias determine who is “high risk”?

written by: Jennifer Kamorowski, Maartje Schreuder, Corine de Ruiter, Marko Jelicic, Karl Ask

In The Netherlands in 1993, a man named Thomas was convicted of an arson in which no one was injured. Thomas was sentenced to four years in prison and involuntary... more
Magazine Issue 09/2018

Understanding Online Child Sexual Abuse and How to Talk to Children About it

written by: Malin Joleby, Carolina Lunde, Linda Jonsson

The new digital technology provides children with endless opportunities to explore and communicate. Still, it is important to prepare them for potential risks that they might encounter online, just as... more

In-Mind Blog

21.04.2014 | Gender

Marrying smart or marrying instead of being smart? The goal conflict between MRS degrees and STEM degrees

written by: Cathleen Clerkin

In this blog post, I review a number of studies that suggest that telling women to focus on their MRS degree (aka getting married) while in college can make women less interested in earning a STEM degree (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math). Why does this matter? Because the STEM fields are in desperate need of women. Luckily, research also suggests that women in STEM are more desirable than women may realize. more
18.04.2014 | Violence & Aggression

Sticks and stones and breaking bones: Social psychology and school aggression

written by: Siân Jones

Bullying is a pervasive issue in schools today. This is one of two blog posts that will look at school aggression from the perspective of contemporary social psychology. In this post, I'll examine the role of groups in encouraging bullying. In my next post, I'll look at the perspective of the bullied victims. When it comes to bullying, it seems that groups can both be a part of the problem and the solution. more
14.04.2014 | Solid Science

The year the journals changed

written by: Roger Giner-Sorolla

Where do all the studies come from? Behind every headline trumpeting a new finding in psychology, you can usually find an article in a peer-reviewed psychology journal. But how reliable are these findings? This is what many scientists have recently started to wonder. Because of this, journals in psychology are starting to insist on better reporting of research studies. In this first post of a two-part series, I will explain some of the standards that have typically been used to judge whether a study deserves publication or not. more
09.04.2014 | Culture

Colorful Culture

written by: Charis Eisen, Keiko Ishii

As a world without colors would be extremely boring, we are luckily able to perceive various different colors that enrich our environment. Recently, Keiko Ishii and colleagues found that the colors we prefer and use for our paintings vary systematically across cultures. But that doesn’t mean that tomorrow’s multi-cultural world is becoming black-and-white or grey, rather there is hope that it will become even more colorful than it is today. In this post, we will illustrate how individuals and cultures engage in mutual construction and thus enhance variety. more
31.03.2014 | Announcements and News

Inequality: Minority disadvantage or White privilege? - And why it matters

written by: Ellie Shockley

In this blog post, I will discuss research showing how framing ethnic inequality in terms of White advantage versus minority disadvantage impacts how Whites and minorities understand inequality and thus how we should address inequality. more
28.03.2014 | Political Psychology

Bleeding-heart liberals and hard-hearted conservatives: Political dehumanization in the United States

written by: Jarret Crawford

My previous blog post covered new research showing that liberals and conservatives are prejudiced against one another to an equal degree. In this post, I will review evidence that liberals’ and conservatives’ prejudices lead them to dehumanize their political opponents—that is, to see them as less than human. more

Editors' Choice

Magazine Issue 09/2026

Teamwork today and tomorrow: The skills that matter and how to build them

written by: Lara Watermann, Natalie Hogh, Joshua Braun, Simone Kubowitsch
In-Mind Blog

After "Adolescence": What we know (and don’t know) about gender attitudes and online misogyny

written by: Kate Schramm, Silvana Weber
Magazine Issue 08/2026 - Special issue on artificial intelligence

Benefits and risks of asking AI for health advice

written by: Jaroslava Kaňková

Magazine Issue 09/2025

Viral and harmful: Violence in media and its impact on empathy

written by: Mira Fauth-Bühler
Magazine Issue 03/2026

Children in front of a screen: what is the impact of technology on their development?

written by: Marica Notte, Daniela Renzi
Magazine Issue 09/2025

Digital moral distortion: How social media can negatively shape our judgement of right and wrong

written by: Tim-Dorian Knöchel, Sarah Vahed

Psychology for You!

Teamwork today and tomorrow: The skills that matter and how to build them

Benefits and risks of asking AI for health advice

Doctor, meet AI: How AI systems influence human decision-making in healthcare

Editorial for the special issue "Artificial intelligence, real consequences: Exploring the psychological dimensions of AI"

Join the In-Mind team: Help us make psychology accessible to everyone!

Teamwork today and tomorrow: The skills that matter and how to build them

After "Adolescence": What we know (and don’t know) about gender attitudes and online misogyny

Benefits and risks of asking AI for health advice

Refugees wel(l)come: The impact of social support on refugees’ well-being

From Pervasive Beliefs To Wrongful Convictions

Sorry, Not Sorry: Apologies and Denials in the #MeToo Movement

The Effect of Acute Stress on Memory: How It Helps and How It Hurts

Risk assessment tools and criminal reoffending: Does bias determine who is “high risk”?

Understanding Online Child Sexual Abuse and How to Talk to Children About it

In-Mind Blog

Marrying smart or marrying instead of being smart? The goal conflict between MRS degrees and STEM degrees

Sticks and stones and breaking bones: Social psychology and school aggression

The year the journals changed

Colorful Culture

Inequality: Minority disadvantage or White privilege? - And why it matters

Bleeding-heart liberals and hard-hearted conservatives: Political dehumanization in the United States

Editors' Choice

Teamwork today and tomorrow: The skills that matter and how to build them

After "Adolescence": What we know (and don’t know) about gender attitudes and online misogyny

Benefits and risks of asking AI for health advice

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Viral and harmful: Violence in media and its impact on empathy

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