Psychology Around the Net: July 7, 2018

Happy Saturday, sweet readers! I hope all my fellow Americans had an amazing Fourth of July last week. I don’t know who Independence Day thinks it is, landing right smack in the middle of the week, but I hope everyone managed some celebrations! Keep reading this week’s Psychology Around the Net for the latest on using environmental psychology to improve your workplace design, how folic acid might help babies in the womb from developing severe mental illness, the new mental health education requirements implemented by Virginia and New York (they’re the first two U.S. states to do it!), and more. Training in Musical Improvisation May Teach Your Brain to Think Differently: The results of a new study out of Columbia University suggest you can improve musical improvisation with practice as your brain learns to categorize musical structures in new ways. Separated Triplets Offer A Glimpse Into ‘The Wild West Of Psychology’: Triplets Eddy Galland, David Kellman, and Bobby Shafran weren’t just separated at birth when they were adopted. They were separated at birth on purpose as part of a scientific experiment related to nature versus nurture and heredity versus environment. How to Use Environmental Psychology to Improve Workplace Design: Laura Shook Guzman of Soma Vida, a coworking a coyoga space, is a clinical psychologist with a specialty in somatic psychology (studying how our mind-body connection affects our thoughts, feelings, and emotional sta...
Source: World of Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Brain and Behavior Children and Teens Health-related Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Psychology Around the Net Research Students Technology Women's Issues Bobby Shafran David Kellman Eddy Galland Source Type: blogs