News - AllPsych https://allpsych.com/tag/news/ The Virtual Psychology Classroom Mon, 11 Sep 2023 22:27:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://allpsych.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cropped-AllPsych-Favicon-32x32.png News - AllPsych https://allpsych.com/tag/news/ 32 32 The Education Gender Gap: APA Task Force looks at How to Help Boys Succeed in School https://allpsych.com/the-education-gender-gap-apa-task-force-looks-at-how-to-help-boys-succeed-in-school/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-education-gender-gap-apa-task-force-looks-at-how-to-help-boys-succeed-in-school Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:51:30 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=93121 The April/May, 2023 edition of the Monitor on Psychology, the bimonthly magazine of the American Psychological Association, led with a cover story about helping boys and young men succeed in the classroom (Abrams, 2023). The article was introduced with a bold statement: "At school, by almost every metric, boys of all ages are doing worse…

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]]> American Psychological Association Publishes Guidelines on Social Media Use for Children and Adolescents https://allpsych.com/american-psychological-association-publishes-guidelines-on-social-media-use-for-children-and-adolescents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=american-psychological-association-publishes-guidelines-on-social-media-use-for-children-and-adolescents Wed, 10 May 2023 00:07:48 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=93097 Social media, like any technology, is neither inherently good nor bad. Its value lies in how we choose to use it. To encourage the positive use of social media and discourage harmful practices among children and adolescents, the American Psychological Association (APA), an organization with 146,000 members, has published a series of recommendations and advisories…

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]]> News Flash: The News Is Making You Less Happy https://allpsych.com/news-flash-the-news-is-making-you-less-happy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-flash-the-news-is-making-you-less-happy Mon, 25 Mar 2019 23:35:10 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=1992 Breaking news, this just in! According to reports we’re getting, uh, it seems that the news might be messing with your mental health. And by reports, I mean a study just published in the British Journal of Psychology. The study, titled Is the News Making Us Unhappy? The Influence on Daily News Exposure on Emotional…

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