Psychology

According to a 2020 Penn study, a letter of condolence conveys care while providing an opportunity for reflection, growth, learning, and legacy.

A 2018 study by Melissa G. Hunt of the School of Arts & Sciences and colleagues showed that social media helps fuel feelings of loneliness.

Anna Schapiro of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the dominant theory of how the brain consolidates memories during sleep had been assumed but hadn’t been tested before.

Kelly Allison of the Perelman School of Medicine says that many people with binge eating disorder eat in secret and grapple with guilt.

Leah Blain of the Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at the Perelman School of Medicine notes that demand for mental health services for veterans and their families remains high, even as the pandemic wanes.

Katy Milkman of the Wharton School says that “temptation bundling,” pairing a workout with a much-loved activity, is amplified if the desired activity is only done while exercising.

Philip Gehrman of the Perelman School of Medicine says that trying harder to sleep and thinking about sleep actually make sleeping harder to achieve.

Thomas Wadden of the Perelman School of Medicine says that BMI measurements can be wrong in some cases.

Maurice Schweitzer of the Wharton School says that the anti-woke agenda and the idea of trans rights has broadly become a wedge issue, gaining and attracting a great deal of attention.

Philip Gehrman of the Perelman School of Medicine explains how temperature is intertwined with the ability to sleep.