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Should We Replace Math Classes With Chess Classes?
Chess is a game that involves critical thinking, focus, spatial reasoning, and a whole range of complex cognitive skills. It’s also a game that’s just plain fun. Put those two things together, ...
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Is Unethical Behavior Disgusting or Downright Infuriating?
Maybe unethical behavior makes your blood boil, or maybe it just plain disgusts you. Apparently, whether immoral actions provoke disgust or anger in you influences how you’ll respond. Psychologists have known that ...
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Brief Dog Therapy Sessions Can Improve Mental Health
Forget your weekly therapy appointment. What about your weekly therapy dog appointment? A group of psychologists in the UK have found that even spending a short period of time with a therapy ...
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Personality Plays a Role in How People Evaluate Each Other’s Performance
In school, did you have that one teacher who was an easy A? And then that one who was ready to pounce on any little error? Which one was more popular? Maybe ...
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Expressing Positive Emotions Linked to Better Heart Health
If you’re happy and you know it, tell someone. Unless that person’s having a bad day and you don’t want to rub it in. A new study from researchers in New Zealand ...
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Are Smart Extraverts the Biggest Liars?
In a way, lying is one of the most human acts. It draws on our unique cognitive abilities, from planning ahead to mentally simulating other people’s perspectives. Because lying is such a ...
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How Does Alcohol Affect Social Anxiety?
A little liquid courage can take the edge off anxiety, but too much liquid courage can cause all sorts of problems. Self-medicating with the anxiety-reducing properties of alcohol has been put forward ...
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Mood Influences People’s Intentions to Exercise
You probably know that a little exercise can do a lot for your mood. And if you read the AllPsych blog often, you know that simply telling people not to exercise for ...
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An Online Intervention for Overprotective Parents
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about how giving children less autonomy puts them at higher risk for anxiety. Now a group of psychologists in Australia have proposed a solution to this ...
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Positive Reinforcement May Be Key to Healthy Habits
A little more carrot and a little less stick may be the trick to maintaining a balanced diet, exercising more, and drinking less. That’s according to a new study from an international ...
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