Today’s exercises are taken from a study demonstrating the efficacy of a faith-based gratitude intervention specifically developed to promote well-being among Muslim university students. As the authors describe, they “adapted the gratitude intervention strategies to harmonise them with the Islamic perspective – the understanding of human nature and happiness.”
I can’t get no (body) satisfaction: Sociocultural pressures associated with disordered eating and body satisfaction in female athletes.
Isabella Pallotto ’19 presented her senior thesis at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral & Cognitive Therapies in Atlanta, GA. “This study contributes to our understanding of sociocultural predictors’ differential influence on athletes’ body satisfaction and disordered eating and the vulnerabilities of lean sport athletes.”
Happy Family Kitchen
I was excited to learn about today’s study, which evaluates a positive psychology intervention built around cooking and eating together. The intervention promotes five themes: joy, gratitude, flow, savoring, and listening. I have shared the activities from this “Happy Family Kitchen” intervention. and encourage you to adapt these ideas for your household!
“There is still a long way to go:” Women’s under-representation in higher-prestige roles at the 2019 annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral & Cognitive Therapies.
Evaluations of women’s participation in the annual meetings of the Association for Behavioral & Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) have consistently found that women are underrepresented in leadership positions and prestigious conference roles. In contrast, women are overrepresented in early-career roles. … The continued underrepresentation of women in advanced positions is consistent with the “leaky pipeline” hypothesis: although women enter the field, they are less likely to advance to higher-level roles. Using data from ABCT’s 2019 meeting in Atlanta, GA, we replicated previous assessments of women’s participation across conference roles and evaluated changes in women’s representation over the last five years of annual meetings (2015-2019).
Mind the gap: The under-representation of female participants and authors in virtual reality research.
Due to COVID-19, the 2020 IEEE Virtual Reality Conference was held virtually. Check out Dr. Tabitha Peck’s presentation of this collaboration with Dr. Sockol and Sarah Hancock ’21.
The call is coming from inside the house: A clinical psychologist’s experiences with reproductive psycho-oncology.
This presentation is forthcoming at the 2020 Biennial Meeting of the North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics & Gynecology at the St. Louis School of Pharmacy in St. Louis, Missouri.
Mind the gap: The under-representation of female participants and authors in virtual reality research.
A common goal of human-subject experiments in virtual reality (VR) research is evaluating VR hardware and software for use by the general public. A core principle of human-subject research is that the sample included in a given study should be representative of the target population; otherwise, the conclusions drawn from the findings may be biased and may not generalize to the population of interest. In order to assess whether characteristics of participants in VR research are representative of the general public, we investigated participant demographic characteristics from human-subject experiments in the Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality Conferences from 2015-2019.
Age-related differences in flashbulb memories: A meta-analysis.
Recent meta-analyses reveal age-related declines in short-term memory (STM), working memory, associative memory, prospective memory, face memory, recognition, and recall. The present meta-analyses extend this work beyond predominantly laboratory-based tasks to a naturalistic phenomenon.
Naikan Reflection
Today’s exercise integrates the first well-being activity I shared with you, Three Good Things, with Naikan meditation – a Japanese reflective practice build around three key questions:
- What have I received?
- What have I given?
- What troubles and difficulties have I caused?
Strengthen Your Social Connections
Many of the interventions that I have shared with you over the past few weeks have focused on activities that you can do as an individual to enhance your well-being. Today’s exercise adapts a social connectedness intervention that was initially developed for the workplace by encouraging you to find new ways to connect with others within our institution.
