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Your Child Is Feeling Sluggish. How Much Water Has She Had to Drink Today?

Psychology

The more hydrated children are, the faster their reaction times and the better they are able to multitask, a new study co-authored by Northeastern professor Charles Hillman has found.

10/09/19 - BOSTON, MA. - A spooky portrait on October 9, 2019. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Millions of brain circuits activate in combined patterns, creating the experience of fear we all know. But these patterns are not the same for all people—or all fears. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

What’s on Your Mind (When You’re Scared out of It)

Psychology

We all know fear. But so far, what happens inside the human brain during scary situations is still a big mystery.

Illustration by Hannah Moore

We Know What We Know (Even When We Don’t Want To)

Psychology

What’s preventing people from accepting that knowledge can be innate is itself innate.

Jesse Greif, executive at OneChronos Markets. Photo courtesy of Jesse Greif

AI’s Next Frontier: Stock Trading

Psychology

Jesse Greif earned his B.S. in psychology at Northeastern. He now is an executive on Wall Street at OneChronos Markets, a new Alternative Trading System that uses AI and Machine Learning to facilitate stock trading.

Northeastern student Samantha Goldman and professor William Sharp co-authored a paper titled “Into the Fire: Using Process to Teach Undergraduate Clinical Psychology” detailing Samantha’s experience learning group therapy methods as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate seminar.

Don’t Go Wasting Your Emotion: Using Group Therapy to Teach

Psychology

Samantha Goldman's experience leading group therapy taught her more than any textbook ever could. It also lead to her co-authoring a paper in the Spring 2019 volume of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society Journal.

A child illuminates hundreds of shoes at a memorial for those killed by Hurricane Maria, in front of the Puerto Rico Capitol, in San Juan, Friday, June 1, 2018. AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa

Here’s the Secret to Unlocking Our Compassion in the Face of Mass Suffering

Psychology

David DeSteno and Daniel Lim found that people are more likely to feel compassion in the face of mass suffering if they believe they can make a difference. Compassion, it seems, is a skill you can strengthen, which is great news for society in general.

08/06/19 - BOSTON, MA. - Student Kieran McVeigh demonstrates how headphones are used for Psyche Loui and Ajay Satpute’s research on the relationship between musical anhedonia and autism spectrum disorders in the Biomedical Imaging Center in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex on August 06, 2019. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Assistant music professor Psyche Loui and assistant psychology professor Ajay Satpute are asking if the phenomenon that makes music undesirable to some people could also be what impairs social bonding. Student Kieran McVeigh demonstrates how headphones will be used during this study. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

What People Who Don’t like Music Might Tell Us about Social Interaction

Psychology

Northeastern professors Ajay Satpute and Psyche Loui are studying the link between music and social interaction. They're asking whether the brain phenomenon that makes music undesirable to five percent of the population is also what impairs social bonding in people with autism spectrum disorders.

Rebecca Shansky, an associate professor of psychology at Northeastern, is using female rats to understand how an estrogen hormone may be helping women with PTSD. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Do Hormones Affect a Woman’s Ability to Recover from PTSD?

Psychology

Rebecca Shansky is studying how levels of estriadol, an estrogen hormone, affect the treatment of women with PTSD.

Of Mice and Women

Psychology

Victorian-era stereotypes that were originally used to keep women out of leadership positions are still with us today, says Rebecca Shansky, an associate professor of psychology at Northeastern. And they're interfering with scientific research.

Gauging a person’s emotional state from facial expressions alone is a futile exercise, according to a new study by a Northeastern researcher. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

You Think You Can Read Facial Expressions? You’re Wrong.

Psychology

Everything from emotion-reading AI to TSA terror threat recognition training relies on the assumption that emotions can be deciphered from basic and universal facial expressions. A new study by Northeastern professor Lisa Feldman Barrett shows that the evidence has always been saying otherwise.

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