Psychology Around the Net: February 9, 2019

This week’s Psychology Around the Net covers the APA’s “Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men” (and Dr. Jordan Peterson’s reaction to it), how psychological placebos affect us, difficult things you need to start doing for yourself now, and more! Jordan Peterson: It’s Ideology vs. Science in Psychology’s War on Boys and Men: The American Psychological Association (APA) has released its Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men, which science writer Stephanie Pappas says “draw on more than 40 years of research showing that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly,” but professor and clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson ain’t havin’ it: “It manages to be simultaneously predictable, reprehensible, infuriating and disheartening — no mean feat for a single document. Make no mistake about it: this document constitutes an all-out assault on masculinity — or, to put it even more bluntly, on men.” Even Psychological Placebos Have an Effect: We know about placebo effects in medical treatment, but several new studies found that placebos also can work when they have psychological effects attributed to them. Don’t Be Afraid to Do These 10 Hard Things for Yourself: You can trust yourself. You can say no to unnecessary obligations. You can ignore others’ empty...
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