Archive: Thu Dec 2015

Study first to find intervention helpful in preventing traits in adolescent boys that are considered a precursor to psychopathy

December 03, 2015

Former Harvard RWJF HSS program scholars Margaret Sheridan, PhD, and Katie McLaughlin, PhD, are co-authors on a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry that found a foster care intervention to be…

Can psychological insights bring relief to U.S. consumer debt burden?

December 03, 2015

Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar Rourke O’Brien, PhD, is author on a paper in Perspectives in Psychological Science that examines psychological barriers to the responsible use of credit and debt, and suggests ways that policymakers could…