Dr Ilham Sebah

My article for @ConversationUK made it on the @ResearchDigest best psychology links this week! 😃😃

@DrJJMurphy @RHULPsychology @UCLouvain_be @SurreyPsych Congratulations on your new post, Jenny! 🥳

It's great to see the development and investment in men's mental health. I hope this work continues. "Black British barber shops have long been a sanctuary for black men and youth, not only to transform their hair, but to talk about love, financial woes and even mental health".

@salonikrishnan Congrats Saloni!! This is amazing news 🥳

So I've promoted to Professor! I'm incredibly fortunate to have had the best mentors, colleagues, and team supporting me :) celebrating with this amazing view of London

If you've ever been sleep deprived, read this:

@n_ramnani @BritishNeuro Congratulations Narender!

So I have some news! I'm very honoured to have been appointed to the role of President Elect of the British Neuroscience Association @BritishNeuro 🧠. bna.org.uk/mediacentre/ne…

One of the great non-intended consequences of doing a PhD is that it accustoms you to variable-delay reward schedules. To survive and thrive in graduate school you have to find the rewards in the little daily things and also be able to work for 4 to 6 years toward one end goal.

@man_mentoring I'm considering watching it again, too! So good 🙌🏾

@illyspeaks We're looking forward to seeing this again later this month 🙌

An incredibly insightful, entertaining and moving play about joy, masculinity, love, pain, grief and the nuances of the black experience. If you haven't watched this, I highly recommend it! #ForBlackBoysWhoHaveConsideredSuicideWhenTheHueGetsTooHeavy

@n_ramnani Looks amazing! Enjoy 😊

Slowing the pace right down in Kovalam Kerala. Delicious South Indian traditional cooked breakfast this morning, with the Indian Ocean in full view.

@manos_tsakiris @nyulangone Congratulations! Fascinating research!

In facial transplantation the acquisition of a new face is a fact, but the experience of a new identity is an unexplored psychological outcome. With R Azevedo & Dr Rodriguez's team at @nyulangone we traced self recognition before & after transplantation 👇pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@DebbiHusbands Huge congratulations!!! So very well deserved 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

3. (Continued) Research suggests that most people waste an enormous amount of time persisting with unrealistic goals and persevering when past behaviors clearly suggest that goals are unlikely to be attained - a phenomenon called the “false hope syndrome.”

3. We suffer from "false hope syndrome" Too much emphasis on positive thinking could drive people to become overly tolerant of adversity (such as in the workplace) and persistent with unattainable goals. (Continued)

Resilience is a complex human phenomenon. But developing doesn't have to be. Here are 3 reasons why we often get resilience wrong:

@lfoulkesy @DrJackAndrews Fascinating paper. Thanks for sharing.