Archive for the ‘Psychology’ Category
2009
“A new study by psychologists at the University at Buffalo and the F. W. Olin College of Engineering finds that in the aftermath of national trauma, the ability to make sense out of what happened has implications for individual well-being and that the kinds of stories people tell about the incident predict very different psychological outcomes for them.
The study, “The Political is Personal: Narrating 9/11 and Psychological Well-Being,” is by Jonathan M. Adler, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Olin, and Michael J. Poulin, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at UB.
‘Understanding the stories people tell about national events provides a unique opportunity to understand how individual well-being is linked to the state of the society,’ Poulin explains…”
source: buffalo.edu