Examining the social in the prosocial: Episode-level features of social interactions and kind acts predict social connection and well-being.

Experiments prompting people to engage in more prosocial behavior (e.g., acts of kindness) or simple social interactions (e.

The Time to Change for Mental Health and Wellbeing via Virtual Professional Coaching: Longitudinal Observational Study.

Background: Optimal mental health yields many benefits and reduced costs to employees and organizations; however, the workplace introduces challenges to building and maintaining mental health that affects wellbeing. While many organizations have introduced programming to aid employee mental health and wellbeing, the uptake and effectiveness of these efforts vary. One barrier to developing more effective interventions is a lack of understanding about how to improve wellbeing over time.

Outcasts and saboteurs: Intervention strategies to reduce the negative effects of social exclusion on team outcomes.

The experience of social exclusion in the workplace adversely impacts employees' well-being, job satisfaction, and productivity, and no one quite knows what to do about it. In this report, we describe the development and testing of three ostracism interventions, designed to help people cope with the negative effects of being excluded by one's team. Across five studies, participants were assigned to a virtual ball toss game where they were either included or excluded by their teammates.