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Night-Owl Teens Might Be Angrier

Neil Petersen — Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:22 +0000

Psychologists that research people’s “chronotypes,” or their propensities to go to bed at different times, have found that early and late risers tend to differ in a variety of ways. In many cases, the findings haven’t exactly been good news for night owls. Studies have suggested that night owls are more likely to have emotional…

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2 Reasons Self-Control and Forgiveness Go Hand-in-Hand

Neil Petersen — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:45:41 +0000

Forgive and forget? Easier said than done, but also easier to do if you have high levels of self-control, it turns out. Previous psychology studies have repeatedly pointed to a link between people’s levels of self-control and their capacity for forgiveness. That link appears to be especially strong when “forgiveness” is seen in terms of…

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Are Video Games Linked to Aggression? Researchers Can’t Agree

Neil Petersen — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 23:25:52 +0000

Whether violent video games go hand-in-hand with violence in real life seems like exactly the kind of question we should send over to the psychology researchers. And psychology researchers do have an answer. Actually, they have several different answers that contradict each other. First, I’ll give you the results of the most recent study published…

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