Dr. Goldberg is the Jan and Larry Landry University Professor of Psychology at Clark University, where she is also the Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Broadly, her research focuses on how a variety of social locations (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, social class) and contexts (e.g., work, family, community) shape processes of development and mental health.

Christopher Martell, director of the UMass Psychological Service Center, is quoted in an article about how to keep sadness from turning into depression. He says one technique to overcome the impulse to do nothing is to “applaud yourself for engaging in one meaningful behavior at a time, however, small.”

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Linda Tropp is quoted in an article titled, “How to Meet People Who Are Different from You.” She says, “What we see is that deep, close contact across group lines, like friendships or meaningful relationships, tends to be stronger in changing how we feel toward other groups.”

Read full article in Yes! magazine