AllPsych Psychology Articles

Many brain games and cognitive training programs claim to help you improve your working memory. Working memory is the kind of memory you draw on to hold information you're currently using in ...
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Rock climbing is a sport that pushes both the body and the mind to their limits. You don't know what focus is until you've tried to scale a vertical slab of granite! ...
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Intuition can be a valuable resource for making decisions. Don't ask me how I know that, I just know it. In science, though, intuition only goes so far. In fact, it's only ...
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Social media has created new ways for people to connect with each other, but it has also created new ways for people to demean and harass each other. Over the last several ...
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Tourette Syndrome is a disorder that involves physical and vocal tics. It appears to affect about 0.5 percent of all children and often improves in adulthood. People with Tourette Syndrome frequently have ...
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Every society has rituals to guide people through life stages like reaching adulthood, marriage and death. People also have personal rituals and habits that they stick to without always knowing why. Many ...
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If I ask you to name a place you wish you were right now, work wouldn't necessarily be the first thing to come to mind. But for some people, work can be ...
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Ever feel like you're a fraud? Like you don't deserve your accomplishments? Like you just got lucky, or maybe fooled people into thinking you're better than you really are? Like you could ...
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Although everyone feels nervous at times, for some people anxiety spreads through their lives and starts causing them real problems. According to one study with over nine thousand participants, about 18 percent ...
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That might sound like a silly question. Of course having a mental illness is going to lower life satisfaction. But how much? Does having a mental illness doom you to never enjoying ...
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