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  • 11 Dec 2025
    Professor Andreas Maercker

    Blog for Historical Trauma Book

    What will become of those currently experiencing the wars we see in the media? Take the wars in Ukraine, Gaza/Israel and Sudan, for example. Will the children be permanently scarred into adulthood, and will the communities be too? My book Historical Trauma: Psychological Processes, Contexts, and Healing collects evidence from psychology and the social sciences […]

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  • 19 Nov 2025
    Rob Poole

    Following the (imperfect) evidence on suicide prevention

    Catherine Robinson, Murad Khan and I have edited a new book on suicide prevention. Does the world need it when there already loads of books on suicide? We think so. Many academics in mental health are aware of the ‘basic facts’ of suicide prevention. Reducing access to means of harming oneself works. Male suicide fluctuates […]

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  • 20 Oct 2025
    Grayscale Photography of People Walking Near Buildings
    Yuval Feldman

    Can Governments Trust Their Citizens? The Paradox of Voluntary Compliance

    Every policymaker knows the dilemma: should governments trust people to do the right thing, or make sure they do it? The safer option has usually been enforcement. Write the rules, monitor behavior, punish violations. Citizens obey because they have to. Yet most regulators also know something they rarely act on: people tend to follow rules […]

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  • 10 Sep 2025
    Owen Bowden-Jones

    How to talk to your child about drugs

    After nearly thirty years working as an addiction psychiatrist with people with drug related problems, I have met many young people experiencing often severe challenges including dependence and associated mental health issues. Some are desperate for support to stop using substances, while others want to continue using drugs but reduce their risk of further harm. […]

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  • 5 Sep 2025
    Stephen C. Levinson

    The language nebula – how language was born in social interaction

    Nebulae are those star nurseries familiar through the fabulous Hubble images like the one above. Languages are also born – indeed every language is reborn, quite literally in the nursery. In my new book The Interaction Engine, just like the astronomers I turn the focus not onto language itself but onto the systems that gave […]

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  • 13 Aug 2025
    Steven Zhou, Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron

    From First Job to Career: Why Your First Job Doesn’t Have to Define You

    What was your very first “real” job? Maybe it came after high school or college, or maybe it came long before that. Maybe it aligned with your academic degree or credentials exactly, or, perhaps, it looked nothing like the work for which you thought you were preparing. For many of us, the transition into the […]

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  • 31 May 2025
    Ahlam Lee

    Rethinking Competition: A Fresh Perspective on Its Role in Society

    We frequently engage in competition—whether as participants or facilitators—across various contexts, often without conscious awareness or even while denying its presence. While competition is traditionally associated with familiar arenas such as the job market, sports, and college admissions, its influence extends far beyond these settings. It is present in democratic elections, where voters indirectly drive […]

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  • 24 May 2025
    Todd L. Pittinsky

    Rudeness Without Reckoning?

    I’ve got a confession: I sometimes act rather rudely to my AI. Maybe you do too? Ever fired off a curt command to ChatGPT? Directed LLaMA with less than grace? Demanded Bard to do something over? Groaned when Grok garbled your guidance for a third time? Just a year ago, I knew little about “LLMs” […]

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