Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

The Impact of Enhancing Students’ Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta-Analysis of School-Based Universal Interventions

Joseph A. Durlak, Roger P. Weissberg, Allison B. Dymnicki, Rebecca D. Taylor, Kriston B. Schellinger

Child Development • Summary & key facts • 2011 • 8,084 citations

This meta-analysis combined results from 213 school-based, universal social and emotional learning (SEL) programs involving 270,034 kindergarten-through-high-school students. Compared with control groups, students in SEL programs showed better social and emotional skills, attitudes, and behavior, and their school achievement was higher by about 11 percentile points. Regular school teaching staff…

Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Early Childhood Education and Development Parental Involvement in Education

The nature of procrastination: A meta-analytic and theoretical review of quintessential self-regulatory failure.

Piers Steel

Psychological Bulletin • Summary & key facts • 2007 • 3,145 citations

This paper reviews research on procrastination and runs a meta-analysis of 691 correlations. It finds that some personality traits (neuroticism, rebelliousness, sensation seeking) have only weak links to procrastination. Strong and consistent predictors include task aversiveness, task delay, low self-efficacy, impulsiveness, and low conscientiousness (including poor self-control, distractibility, poor organization,…

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies Work-Family Balance Challenges

Exploring the effect of microdosing psychedelics on creativity in an open-label natural setting

Luisa Prochazkova, Dominique P. Lippelt, Lorenza S. Colzato, Martin Kuchař, Zsuzsika Sjoerds, Bernhard Hommel

Psychopharmacology • Summary & key facts • 2018 • 176 citations

In a natural, open-label study at a microdosing event, researchers tested people before and while they expected the effects of a psychedelic truffle microdose. They found better performance on a task that measures convergent thinking and on a task that measures divergent thinking. A short test of fluid intelligence did…

Chemical synthesis and alkaloids Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior Psychedelics and Drug Studies

The acute effects of classic psychedelics on memory in humans

C. J. Healy

Psychopharmacology • Summary & key facts • 2021 • 91 citations

This 2021 review of human studies found that classic psychedelics (for example psilocybin, LSD, ayahuasca) tend to reduce performance on standard memory tests in a dose-dependent way: low doses usually showed no impairment and higher doses caused more impairment. At the same time, these drugs often made autobiographical memories feel…

Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques Chemical synthesis and alkaloids Psychedelics and Drug Studies

Effects of Singing Bowl Sound Meditation on Mood, Tension, and Well-being: An Observational Study

Tamara L. Goldsby, Michael E. Goldsby, Mary McWalters, Paul J. Mills

Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine • Summary & key facts • 2016 • 90 citations

This observational study tested Tibetan singing bowl sound meditation with 62 adults (mean age 49.7). After the session, people reported less tension, anger, fatigue, and depressed mood, and higher spiritual well-being. People who had never tried this meditation before showed a larger drop in tension than people who had experience.…

Music Therapy and Health Neuroscience and Music Perception Sleep and related disorders

What Triggers Anger in Everyday Life? Links to the Intensity, Control, and Regulation of These Emotions, and Personality Traits

Todd B. Kashdan, Fallon R. Goodman, Travis T. Mallard, C. Nathan DeWall

Journal of Personality • Summary & key facts • 2015 • 51 citations

Researchers followed 173 people for 3 weeks and had them record their most intense daily anger episode (2,342 episodes total). They grouped the open-ended anger triggers into five categories and found that anger caused by other people or by an unknown source tended to be stronger and felt less controlled.…

Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Personality Traits and Psychology Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

The Association Between Vulnerable/Grandiose Narcissism and Emotion Regulation

Leonie Anne Kathrin Loeffler, Anna K. Huebben, Sina Radke, Ute Habel, Birgit Derntl

Frontiers in Psychology • Summary & key facts • 2020 • 39 citations

This study tested 60 healthy adults (30 women, 30 men) to see how two types of narcissism — vulnerable and grandiose — relate to emotion regulation. Researchers used questionnaires and a lab task that asked people to either feel naturally or use reappraisal (change how they think) while viewing sad…

Emotional Intelligence and Performance Personality Disorders and Psychopathology Personality Traits and Psychology

Personality Assessment for Employee Development: Ivory Tower or Real World?

Penny Moyle, John Hackston

Journal of Personality Assessment • Summary & key facts • 2018 • 33 citations

Over the last 40 years, personality tests have become much more common at work. Companies use them for things like coaching, building teams, and hiring. But most published research looks at tests only for hiring. That means reviews often use rules that fit hiring, not the different needs of helping…

Emotional Intelligence and Performance Gender Diversity and Inequality Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Neurophysiological activity following rewards and losses among female adolescents and young adults with borderline personality disorder.

Jeremy G. Stewart, Paris Singleton, Erik M. Benau, Dan Foti, Hannah Allchurch, Cynthia S. Kaplan, et al.

Journal of Abnormal Psychology • Summary & key facts • 2019 • 16 citations

This study recorded brain activity (EEG) while 68 females aged 13–23 (35 with borderline personality disorder, 33 healthy) did a guessing task with equal wins and losses. People with BPD showed less difference in their brain responses to wins versus losses than healthy peers. Time-frequency tests suggested this smaller difference…

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Mental Health Research Topics Personality Disorders and Psychopathology

Impact of Himalayan Singing Bowls Meditation Session on Mood and Heart Rate Variability – An Observational Study

Saharsh Panchal, Fariburz Irani, Gunjan Y Trivedi

International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research • Summary & key facts • 2020 • 9 citations

This small observational study checked mood and heart-rate measures before and after one 40-minute seated Himalayan singing bowl (HSB) sound-bath. After the session, 77 people reported higher positive affect and lower negative affect on the PANAS mood survey. A smaller group (17) filling the POMS survey reported less tension, anger,…

Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions Sleep and related disorders

Trauma‐informed or sensory‐based practices in preschool settings: A scoping review

Richard Hockey, Kelsey Philpott‐Robinson, Kirsti Haracz, Karen Ray

Australian Occupational Therapy Journal • Summary & key facts • 2025 0 citations

This scoping review searched six databases using PRISMA-ScR guidelines for studies about trauma-informed and sensory-based practices in preschools. The authors found 18 journal articles, mostly from the United States. Most studies described trauma-informed approaches built into daily routines, while fewer tested sensory-based programs that ran for set periods. Most supports…

Child Abuse and Trauma Family and Disability Support Research Occupational Therapy Practice and Research