Psychology

What’s with the aversion to lab-grown meat?

Paul Rozin of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses the cultural, environmental, and evolutionary roots of people’s disgust toward cultured meat.

Schools should be phone-free zones

In an Op-Ed, Melissa G. Hunt of the School of Arts & Sciences urges the School District of Philadelphia to ban smartphones for the sake of student engagement and academic outcomes.

Holiday suicide myth debunked

Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the commonly shared link between Christmastime and suicides is a false and dangerous myth.

In search of an attainable New Year’s resolution

Katy Milkman of the Wharton School says that the issue with New Year’s resolutions is the way that people approach them rather than the resolutions themselves.

Your brain on silence

Mathias Basner of the Perelman School of Medicine says that nighttime noise pollution causes the body to excrete stress hormones and stiffen blood vessels.

Myth that suicides peak during the holidays could cause harm

A study by Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and colleagues found that 56% of stories published last year perpetuated the false connection between the holidays and suicide.

Penn study debunks myth about increased suicide during holidays

Dan Romer discusses the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s recent study noting the frequency of false reports that suicides increase around the holidays.

Wharton professor Adam Grant makes case for four-day week

At The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit, Adam Grant of the Wharton School says that a four-day workweek could increase employee well-being while improving the pace of work inside companies.

John MacDonald and Gina South in West Philly

Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence

Installing working windows and doors, cleaning trash, and weeding at abandoned houses led to safety improvements and should be considered in efforts to create healthy communities, according to researchers from University of Pennsylvania and Columbia.

Suicide doesn’t increase during the holidays, but the media perpetuates that myth, new Penn study finds

An analysis from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that more than half of media references to the “holiday-suicide myth” last year failed to debunk it, with quotes from Dan Romer.

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