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A few months ago, I saw the documentary Stress: Portrait of a Killer. As you can tell from the name, it's not a film that has a lot of good things to ...
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Honestly, I tend to tune out when people talk about the power of positive thinking. The idea that being optimistic can solve all your problems never really rang true to me. Surely ...
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People are switching jobs more than ever before. An analysis published by LinkedIn this week found that job-hopping has almost doubled in the last two decades. Chalk it up to a changing ...
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Rejection is a part of life, but it's a part of life that isn't particularly fun. Because we're social animals, we respond to rejection in a predictable way: we feel bad. But ...
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No mount of money is a substitute for happiness, or so the traditional wisdom goes. And science has tended to suggest that the traditional wisdom is right – that is, until a ...
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School is more than just a place for learning academic subjects. It's also where students mature as people and figure out how to be part of society. Kids take the more general ...
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In my last post, I wrote that people who're primed to think about free will tend to make riskier decisions. This is true, but like many things in psychology, it's not quite ...
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One of the things we can learn from psychology is that a lot of different factors outside our control influence our behavior. And one of those factors itself is whether we believe ...
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Last week I wrote about a study on what happy people tweet. But there's some research out that looks at another question: what do happy people eat? I always just assumed there ...
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Every year millions of people fill out brackets predicting the results of the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament. This year, Syracuse is the big surprise so far – less than one percent ...
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