This article addresses the need for well-being initiatives in the workplace as a silver bullet for thriving organizations. It covers highlights from 2021 that lay the ground for setting processes in organizations supporting positive mental health as an outcome. Lastly, I offer suggestions on creating a baseline to address these issues. 2022 is still a year of recovery from the …
WFH Tips from a working Psychology student
Tweet In the era, where we were promised flying cars and trips to the moon, no one in their craziest dreams could have predicted this worldwide pandemic as a kickstart to the new decade. Along with the updated catalogues for online streaming sites like Netflix and Amazon Prime, our laziness and inability to step out of our houses, the addition ...
Psychological Response to COVID-19 & Loneliness in the UK
Tweet Researchers at UCL have stepped forward in this time of global crisis to ascertain the impact of a pandemic such as COVID-19 on individuals living in the UK. Currently, adult participants living in the UK are being recruited to study the impact of the pandemic. Researchers hope that the data collected could help inform policy and practice with regards ...
The benefits of small acts of kindness
A new study at the University of California attempted to study altruistic tendencies & their impact in a working environment. A group of employees were asked to be kind to a small group (experimental group) of people while expressing nothing of the sort to a different group (control group). Results suggest that pro-social behaviours by the experimental group increased by …
Are emotional expressions universal? Study says…
Are emotional expressions universal? A new study reveals some interesting findings. Many human languages have words for emotions such as “anger” and “fear,” yet it is not clear whether these emotions have similar meanings across languages, or why their meanings might vary.