Major Study Reveals What Celibacy Indicates About Health, Psychology, and Environment
How much do intelligence, education, or our environment determine whether we ever have sex? A new study involving over 400,000 people shows: Lifelong celibacy is not a fringe phenomenon—it is…
Fine-tuning LLMs in behavioral psychology for scalable health coaching
MHC-Coach message generation A fine-tuning approach was selected for MHC-Coach as it supports low-latency, single-turn interactions without the runtime overhead of multi-step prompting, making it well-suited for mobile-health deployment. Data…
RSU Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy and RSU LASE celebrate new teams, facilities, and future goals
Writer: Ilze Āķe-Vīksne, RSU Public Relations Unit On 11 September, Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) hosted a celebratory event for the Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy and the RSU Latvian…
Prevention isn’t just policy – it’s Health Psychology
Prevention is the buzzword of recent government health policy, yet real prevention won’t happen without psychology. Why? Because prevention is about people: their behaviours, motivations, fears, habits, and choices. And…
Health psychology should be at the heart of efforts to improve the health of the Scottish nation
Heather Connolly is a health psychologist and chair of the BPS’s Scottish Branch of the Division of Health Psychology. She explains how health psychology can help to further achieve the…
Overwhelmed by Negative Thoughts? Mental Health Tips From a Psychology Professor
How does your approach to confronting negative thoughts differ from mainstream therapies? With acceptance and commitment therapy, what we do is we learn to accept the presence of the thought,…