Discover new media releases and publishing projects that expand perspectives - covering books, films, podcasts, and platforms exploring psychology, consciousness, and culture.
A new academic volume, Using Mindfulness to Promote Mental Health in Schools, brings together leading researchers to examine how mindfulness-based practices can strengthen emotional resilience, reduce stress, and support student well-being. The book covers assessments, school-wide programs, teacher-focused models, and targeted interventions for students with emerging or chronic needs. Its central message is clear: mindfulness is not a trend but a teachable psychological skill that can be integrated into a multi-tiered system of school mental health, benefiting youth, caregivers, and educators alike.
A new collection by philosopher Thomas Attig, published in Oxford Academic Online, explores the science and phenomenology of how people rebuild their inner and outer worlds after loss. Instead of viewing grief as a passive emotional state, Attig argues that grieving is an active process shaped by meaning-making, identity reconstruction, and continuous engagement with the changed realities left by death. His writings show how mourners navigate brokenness, restore coherence, and develop new patterns of living and loving across time.
New work from William B. Irvine, published in Oxford Scholarship Online, explores why human reasoning is both powerful and fragile, and how people who appear highly rational in one domain can think poorly in another. The chapters examined here outline the structure of causation, the pitfalls of selective reasoning, and the cognitive disruption created by the modern internet. Together they offer a scientific framework for understanding how thinking succeeds - and why even skilled thinkers must deliberately maintain mental discipline.
What happens when a child's first storybook isn't written by a human? A new study explores how young readers and their families respond to AI-generated tales - from playful curiosity to doubts about quality and voice.
What does it mean to be conscious - to truly feel pain, pleasure, or fear? In her book Who Is Conscious?, Oxford biologist Marian Stamp Dawkins argues that one of the greatest obstacles to understanding awareness in humans and animals is not lack of evidence, but the words we use. By "flirting with consciousness," she warns, scientists and the public risk confusing observable behavior with the deeper mystery of subjective experience. Her call is simple but urgent: only clear language can bring clarity to the hardest question in science.
