Megan Fritz

social psychologist / the pursuit of happiness & health

[BetterUp @BetterUp]

Allow us to reintroduce ourselves. We’re BetterUp. ☁️

We know it’s easier to navigate life’s ups and downs with some backup.

A Coach and community in your corner as you put in the work to get to where you want to be.

Who will you become?

Better you. Better all. BetterUp. ⚡️

[Hidden Brain @HiddenBrain]

This week, we talk with psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky about the myths of happiness — and how the things that make us the happiest are often small, everyday experiences hiding in plain sight.
What are some unexpected things in your life that bring you joy? https://t.co/vSlFXpy1r6

[Megan Fritz @MeganMFritz]

just dropping by to say @S_S_TRACY and I are having quite a party over on our other account. find us @BerniesMittens for memes about mittens and mutual aid.

[Megan Fritz @MeganMFritz]

Roberts and Rizzo's recent American Psychologist article "The Psychology of American Racism" as a lens to discuss racism and healthcare, & psychobiological mechanisms of racism-health link. Many useful references and discussion topics within! (2/2) https://t.co/4l5E0TZmNl

[Megan Fritz @MeganMFritz]

Sharing slides from this week's highly generative @PittTweet Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine: Health Equity journal club presentation from Karen Matthews,
@JewelPhD, and Brian Chin, in which they used (1/2)
https://t.co/TSZXIfC6DU

[Megan Fritz @MeganMFritz]

@CJohnston1903 Thank you!! 😊😊

[Megan Fritz @MeganMFritz]

@OpenAcademics I am a positive health psychologist, currently doing a postdoc investigating how self-compassion and positive emotions shape cardiovascular health, inflammation, and well-being for women during the menopause transition.

[Megan Fritz @MeganMFritz]

@OpenAcademics That’s me! 🥰 At least, I strive to be a kind person while conducting research on the health benefits of being kind. (And grateful, and optimistic, and self-compassionate too!)

[Harvard Center for Health and Happiness @HarvardCenterHH]

New research from Drs. @MeganMFritz, Center seminar speaker @slyubomirsky & colleagues shows that a 4-week classroom-based #gratitude intervention led to increased self-reported life satisfaction & self-improvement motivation in 9th & 10th grade students. https://t.co/MiVEK1kYPX

[Sonja Lyubomirsky @slyubomirsky]

Other than the spelling of "extraversion," this turned out to be a cool summary of our new study (with Dunigan Folk, Karynna Okabe-Miyamoto, and Liz Dunn)!

[Society for Personality and Social Psychology @SPSPnews]

"county-level voter unhappiness prior to the 2016 election mattered more to Donald Trump's electoral success than a host of other factors, including the county's level of income, its unemployment rate, population age, and racial composition." https://t.co/u1FcqoNPdn @MITSloan

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

Labor Day reminder ⬇️

CEO-to-worker pay ratio:
2009: 197-to-1
2020: 320-to-1

Federal minimum wage:
2009: $7.25
2020: $7.25

[Ruth M. Barrientos @RBarrientosLab]

Faculty and Scientists: Add your voice to a call to end system racism in higher education

A group of scientists has written a commentary about how to stop systemic racism in higher education that will appear in the journal Science on Sept 18th. You can sign on to the letter if..

[Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social) @tcarpenter216]

Whatever your stance on journals, it’s *BIZARRE* that Elsevier (with a profit margin rivaling Apple’s) won’t pay for your peer review labor, gets content for free, and sells it back to your school for profit. Serious question—how can we do this differently? Alternatives?

[Megan Fritz @MeganMFritz]

@MadinaAgenor's paper in particular provides a useful framework and concrete, practical action items for quantitative health researchers to guide future research questions, address limitations in your field, evaluate others' work.

[Megan Fritz @MeganMFritz]

Co-leading our dept's biweekly journal club this semester, & we chose to center this semester (hopefully full year) on Health Equity in CBM research. At our first mtg today, we introduced @MadinaAgenor's intersectional quant population health framework 1/3 https://t.co/AkeYijHlBk

[Megan Fritz @MeganMFritz]

Sharing slides from our discussion in the hope that future research/talks can use these incredible papers as a guide toward the goal of conducting intersectional research to inform policy and achieve health equity.
Link to slides w paper refs here: https://t.co/TSZXIfTI2u

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[Greater Good @GreaterGoodSC]

Big news: Our new book "The Gratitude Project" comes out on September 1! https://t.co/Pdv3idgEUp featuring @sumscience @Giacomo_Bono @CatBrozena @raisinghappines @daviddesteno @Dr_RobertEmmons @glennrfox @MeganMFritz @leifhass @e_hop @ariannahuff @ChristinaKarns

[Megan Fritz @MeganMFritz]

@doctorjahan @S_S_TRACY happy birthday & thank you for helping keep us all safe, Dr. Ahmed! 🙏🏼

[Dr. Jahan @doctorjahan]

Wishing a happy 60th birthday to my other half, Dr. Ahmed! Although many of you know him as your professor, he works at the NJDOH & has been working tirelessly answering calls about COVID-19 at the NJ DOH Call Center 🦠