Psychology Around the Net: April 4, 2020

This week’s Psychology Around the Net offers tips on keeping your sanity when working from home, the dangers of getting your news from social media platforms, how to use mindfulness to reduce procrastination, and more. How to Focus On Your Work When All You Can Think About Is COVID-19: Five Simple Steps: Work can provide a productive and much needed distraction, but how are you supposed to work when all you can focus on is the latest coronavirus headline? 21 Tips to Survive Working From Home: On that note, whether you’re newly working from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic or you normally work from home but now you’re juggling work with your family being home, you might needs some ideas on how to both survive and thrive in your home office. How Social Media Makes It Difficult to Identify Real News: Getting your news from Facebook or Twitter isn’t ideal. According to researchers out of Ohio State University, when people see both news and entertainment content on social media they tend to pay less attention to the content’s source, which means they could mistake fiction or satire for real news. Says George Pearson, the study’s lead author: “We are drawn to these social media sites because they are one-stop shops for media content, updates from friends and family, and memes or cat pictures. But that jumbling of content makes everything seem the same to us. It makes it harder for us to distinguish what we need to take seriously from that ...
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