Kate Sweeny, PhD: Thanks so much for having me. She has published dozens of peer-reviewed research studies and received APA’s 2016 Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology. She also studies how doctors can talk to their patients to lessen the patient’s anxiety. In recent years, she’s become interested in exploring how getting into a state of flow can help people cope with this type of uncertainty. Her lab has studied people experiencing tense times in their lives, including law school graduates awaiting news about the bar exam, patients awaiting biopsy results, and voters awaiting the outcome of a presidential election. Sweeny researches on how people cope with acute uncertainty. Kate Sweeny, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Welcome to Speaking of Psychology, the flagship podcast of the American Psychological Association that examines the links between psychological science and everyday life. What makes waiting so stressful? How does the stress of waiting differ from other types of stress? What kinds of waiting periods are the most difficult? Do some people have an easier time waiting than others? And what’s the relationship between waiting and worrying? Is worrying always bad? And if you’re in a period of anxious waiting, are there strategies you can use to lessen your anxiety and make the time pass more easily? And since COVID-19 entered our lives, the whole world has gotten a crash course in waiting and worrying as we've all hoped for the end of this agonizing pandemic. Is there anything more agonizing than having to wait for something important? You know, that feeling of hoping for good news while bracing for the worst? Time seems to crawl in periods of high-stakes uncertainty, such as for a job applicant waiting to find out whether they got their dream job or a high school senior waiting for word from colleges, or a patient awaiting biopsy results. Speaking of Psychology will be back with new episodes on August 23rd. We hope you enjoy this episode from the archives. In 2021, I talked to psychologist Kate Sweeny about the particular stress of waiting, and living with uncertainty. Kim Mills: Speaking of Psychology is taking a summer break, so we’re rerunning one of our favorite episodes from the past.
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