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10/2025

Starting early: How caregivers can support their children's emotion regulation
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- Katharina Demke,
- Mara Hüttner,
- Dr. Avelina Lovis Schmidt
Emotion regulation in children can be challenging: screaming, loud crying, temper tantrums at the supermarket checkout - many people are familiar with such situations. What role do caregivers play in these moments, and how can they effectively support their children? The good news is that even small actions can have a lasting positive effect, strengthening children’s emotion regulation for life.
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09/2025

Covert control: How political elites and influencers use manipulation on social media
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- Meredith M. Turner,
- Sara Holland Levin
The popularity of users like politicians and political influencers on social media demonstrates their power and sway over public discourse today. But how do these political users gain and maintain power? This article explores how the current media landscape is dominated by political influencers and elites, making it harder for users to know what’s trustworthy and detect misinformation. By spotlighting the tactics that some of these sources use to build influence with their audiences, we bring attention to how political information is shared and processed in today’s digital landscape.
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09/2025

Scrolling against hate: Developing critical media competence to counter online antisemitism
- by
- Agata Maria Kraj,
- Özen Odağ,
- Larisa Buhin,
- Jannis Niedick,
- Justine Kohl,
- Linda P. Juang
Social media connects – but also divides. This article explores how antisemitism appears online, why young adults are especially vulnerable, and what we can do about it. Based on existing research, it offers practical tools to build media competence and promote responsible, intentional communication in the fight against online hate.
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Issue

09/2025

Social media use towards self-diagnosing and health anxiety
- by
- Lili R. Romann
Self-diagnosing occurs when individuals who are not medical professionals intrinsically establish themselves as living with a particular medical diagnosis. Self-diagnosing is becoming all the more prominent due to increasing communication about health, symptoms, and diagnoses online, namely on algorithmically-dominated social media platforms. While this can be an empowering process for individuals suffering from health issues, it can also perpetuate health anxiety. Users should carefully review health information which they consume on social media and online.
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Issue

09/2025

FOMO: The fun everybody else has
- by
- Carolin Lehmann
Have you ever felt that nagging sense of missing out on something exciting? Did you feel like you did not take on an opportunity that may never come again -a concert, party, or a meeting with friends?Then you probably know what it feels like to have FOMO.
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Magazine Issue 10/2014

The influential child: It is not all up to the parents

by: Reut Avinun

A classic answer to the "what stirred development to the wrong track" question, is parenting; Why am I so anxious? My parents did not love me enough. Why am I...
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Magazine Issue 10/2014

The influential child: It is not all up to the parents

by: Reut Avinun

A classic answer to the "what stirred development to the wrong track" question, is parenting; Why am I so anxious? My parents did not love me enough. Why am I...
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Magazine Issue 10/2014

How stress influences our morality

by: Lucius Caviola, Nadira S. Faber

All of us are stressed every now and then. There are phenomena we usually associate with stress, like health risks and feelings like fear, panic, or insecurity. But stress might...
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Magazine Issue 08/2014

Revisiting the past can make the present a better place: The psychological and social benefits of nostalgia

by: Clay Routledge

For centuries nostalgia was viewed as an illness of the brain or mind. The consensus was that nostalgia caused physical and mental distress and by orienting people’s attention to the...
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Magazine Issue 08/2014

Living in a safer world: Offering help when surrounded by others for the sake of reputation

by: Marly van Oirschot, Marco van Bommel

Almost every single day you hear and read terrifying news about violence. A football team kicks the arbiter to death (Mohamed, 2013), two teenagers beat up a 14-year-old boy (Lai...
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Magazine Issue 06/2014

No strings attached: Are “friends with benefits” as complicated in real life as they are in the movies?

by: Justin J. Lehmiller

Many people become “friends with benefits” to avoid drama and to have sex without getting tied up in emotions; however, the reality is that having a friend with benefits often...
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In-Mind Blog

29.01.2014 | Political Psychology

Everyone is biased

by: Jarret Crawford

My first blog post tells the story of my discovery of the conditions that reveal the political biases of liberals and conservatives. It’s also a story of coming to terms... more
04.01.2014 | Big Questions in Society

After Trayvon: The science of protecting innocent black men

by: Scott Sleek

Even though the death of Trayvon Martin drew much public attention in the last year and a half, the shooting of an unarmed, innocent black male is in no way... more
31.12.2014 | Big Questions in Society

Why do we sometimes enjoy the misfortune of others?

by: Wilco van Dijk

Have you ever been in a situation where you couldn’t resist a little smile when someone else had a setback? Have you ever experienced joy when another person suffered a... more
01.12.2013 | Big Questions in Society

Why do people help strangers when disaster strikes?

by: Theresa DiDonato

Marc Fucarile, a 34-year old native of Stoneham MA, lost his right leg, nearly lost his left, was peppered with shrapnel, and suffered severe burns when the second bomb exploded... more

Book Reviews

Psychology for You!

Starting early: How caregivers can support their children's emotion regulation

Covert control: How political elites and influencers use manipulation on social media

Scrolling against hate: Developing critical media competence to counter online antisemitism

Social media use towards self-diagnosing and health anxiety

FOMO: The fun everybody else has

Starting early: How caregivers can support their children's emotion regulation

Covert control: How political elites and influencers use manipulation on social media

Scrolling against hate: Developing critical media competence to counter online antisemitism

Social media use towards self-diagnosing and health anxiety

The influential child: It is not all up to the parents

The influential child: It is not all up to the parents

How stress influences our morality

Revisiting the past can make the present a better place: The psychological and social benefits of nostalgia

Living in a safer world: Offering help when surrounded by others for the sake of reputation

No strings attached: Are “friends with benefits” as complicated in real life as they are in the movies?

In-Mind Blog

Everyone is biased

After Trayvon: The science of protecting innocent black men

Why do we sometimes enjoy the misfortune of others?

Why do people help strangers when disaster strikes?

Book Reviews

Buried Secrets: Rememberance of Things Past, a Review by Christopher Perez

The Coddling of the American Mind, reviewed by Dylan Selterman

My Year of Rest and Relaxation, reviewed by Andrew Archer

The Quelling, reviewed by Katharine Coldiron

The Hope Circuit, Reviewed by Joe Smith

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