General Psychology

If you’re feeling thankful this Thanksgiving, you should be thankful that you’re feeling thankful. Being able to count your blessings is itself a blessing. That’s because psychology research has shown repeatedly that ...
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We don’t like to think about it, but there’s no denying it – that turkey that’s now your Thanksgiving dinner was once alive. It was once a living, breathing, gobbling being with ...
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Do letters have colors for you? Do numbers have locations in space? Do sounds have smells? If so, you might have synesthesia. And, as it turns out, you might also be more ...
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Not all college students use marijuana. But more than half do – at least, if a recent study done at University of Northern Colorado is representative of other schools. Granted, it is ...
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If you want to understand the differences between introverts and extraverts, one place you could look is their brains. Another, apparently, is their hearts. Recently, a study from researchers at Shaanxi Normal ...
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How many digits can you remember at once? Psychologists refer to this as a digit span test. For example, I might give you a number like 59368572 and ask you to repeat ...
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There are plenty of things we could be doing to improve students outcomes. Training teachers more thoroughly, giving schools more funding to work with, teaching students effective study strategies. But the impact ...
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Who are you and what’s your life story? Answering one of these questions might tell you a lot about the other. People have a tendency to create stories out of things. Seeing ...
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We can all probably agree that we’d like for the world to be a fair place. What’s harder to agree on is whether the world actually is fair. Although it’s a basic ...
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You might have a certain picture of what a "millennial" looks like. Plugged into social media, snapping selfies, entitled, self-absorbed. In short, narcissistic. The narcissistic millennial is a trope that many journalists ...
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