Privacy & Surveillance

New meta-analysis of smartphone based interventions demonstrates small-to-moderate effect.

Researchers found participants were less likely to dehumanize those with whom they disagreed when they heard their voices.

A discourse analysis conducted by sociologists finds problematic assumptions and practices in the field of neurocriminology.

-Motherboard reports on an implantable chip that can hold hundreds of doses of drugs and be activated by remote control.

The basic idea of the experiential democracy project is to supplement conventional legislative or other forms of diplomatic and moral deliberation with person-centered (“I-Thou”) principles of encounter. These principles, which derive from existential-humanistic psychology and person-centered therapy, stress the attempt to engage participants to more intimately understand each other, and through this context to more intimately understand each other’s often conflicting positions on issues of moral import.

New study examines how increased screen time and social media may be contributing to depressive symptoms and suicide risk in teens

Medical sociologist David Pilgrim argues that mental health care is neither effective nor “kindly,” as it often relies on flawed research and ineffective treatments.

"Disappointing" and "tragedy" are some of the descriptives everyday doctors are using to describe the expanding use of electronic medical records, according to The...

New research shows that having a strong sense of personal meaning and purpose can reduce the negative effects of social media use.

Colorado police trained in crisis intervention infrequently use force or arrest individuals experiencing a mental health crisis and are likely to transfer individuals to a treatment facility.

Findings point to association between race and the mental health care experiences of African-American and White veterans.

Researchers explore pathways of healing racial trauma in Latinx immigrant communities.

The majority of universities require most or all employees to report disclosures of sexual assault, but these policies may be ineffective at addressing campus sexual violence and disempowering for survivors

Today, Hillary Clinton’s campaign released their plan for addressing mental health care in the United States. The plan calls for a full integration of...

Concerns have been raised about inconsistent and unreliable results, which may lead to injustices in sentencing or even wrongful convictions.

...but how realistic is it to expect that the biological skew of Western psychiatry can be sustainably changed one small step at a time?

Members of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Psychiatry Products division go on the defensive in a new article, responding to concerns about the agency’s approval of digital aripiprazole.

How does social network site use influence well-being? Researchers suggest this depends on the extent to which site use is “connection-promoting."

How people are treated after being hospitalized can either help them to overcome the traumatic effects of coercion or make them worse.

Researcher Dr. Silke Schwarz highlights how Western psychology’s construction of individual resilience deflects emphasized individual pathology and deflects efforts at structural change.

Researchers present loneliness as a health threat facing a growing number of Americans.

The results of the cross-sectional study show that U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) owned hospitals perform worst on most measures.

A new study finds that mental health apps promote a one-dimensional view of mental health.

Participatory action approaches in bioethics research used to decrease coercion and seclusion in psychiatric treatment.

New research demonstrates that common methods for estimating depression prevalence lead to overestimation and exaggerated statistics.