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

Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0)

Elham Tabassi

NIST • Summary & key facts • 2023 • 466 citations

The NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) is a voluntary guide published in January 2023 to help organizations of all sizes manage the risks of AI and promote trustworthy, responsible AI. It sets out core trustworthiness goals (like safety, fairness, privacy, and reliability) and a practical structure of…

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education

Effects of voluntary slow breathing on heart rate and heart rate variability: A systematic review and a meta-analysis

Sylvain Laborde, Mark S. Allen, Uirassu Borges, Fabrice Dosseville, Thomas J. Hosang, Maša Iskra, et al.

PubMed • Summary & key facts • 2022 • 205 citations

This 2022 systematic review and meta-analysis pooled data from 223 studies to see if voluntary slow breathing (VSB) changes heart rate variability that reflects parasympathetic (vagal) control of the heart. The authors found that VSB increased vagally-mediated heart rate variability during breathing sessions, right after a single session, and after…

Cardiac Health and Mental Health Cardiovascular and exercise physiology Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control

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

“It’s Not Just Time Off”: A Framework for Understanding Factors Promoting Recovery From Burnout Among Internal Medicine Residents

Nauzley C Abedini, Shobha W Stack, Jessie L Goodman, Kenneth P Steinberg

PubMed Central (PMC) • Summary & key facts • 2018 • 69 citations

Researchers interviewed 25 internal medicine residents and recent graduates who said they had recovered from burnout. They found two main kinds of burnout: circumstantial (caused by specific work or life situations) and existential (caused by loss of meaning or an uncertain professional role). Recovery methods were different for each kind.…

Empathy and Medical Education Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout Innovations in Medical Education

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

This study followed 173 people for 3 weeks and collected 2,342 reports of their most intense daily anger. Each day participants wrote what triggered their anger and rated how strong it felt, how much they controlled it, and what strategies they used. Researchers grouped the triggers into five categories and…

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

Attention deficits linked with proclivity to explore while foraging

David L. Barack, Vera U. Ludwig, Felipe Parodi, Nuwar Ahmed, Elizabeth M. Brannon, Arjun Ramakrishnan, et al.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences • Summary & key facts • 2024 • 21 citations

This pre-registered study tested whether ADHD-like traits relate to how people search for rewards. In an online task, participants chose either to keep collecting from a depleting patch or to leave and go to a new one. They also completed a well-validated ADHD self-report screen. People left patches sooner when…

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Behavioral Health and Interventions Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies