General Psychology

A growing theme in education research is that having the right personality traits is as important as intelligence in academic success. Smarts help, but they aren't necessarily enough if you want an ...
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People use different coping strategies to deal with stressful events, and some people use coping strategies more than others. Three techniques for keeping perspective through the ups and downs of life that ...
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Just try running a behavioral study on cats. It's like, well, herding cats. For the sake of scientific progress, though, a team of Finnish researchers did it anyway, trying to determine: are ...
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When you're trying to solve a problem, there are a couple ways you can get to a solution. Sometimes you have to fight your way forward one step at a time. Other ...
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If you think psychologists don't do enough research with practical applications, you've got another think coming. A team of researchers from Gettysburg College have just published a study on a topic we ...
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Ever feel like everyone's looking at you? More often than not, no one is paying as much attention to you as you're paying to yourself. But we're not always good at differentiating ...
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Sleep paralysis is about as much fun as it sounds like. It refers to a state people can experience while falling asleep or waking up where they are conscious but can't move ...
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It's no secret that having a negative body image can lower your self-esteem and make you depressed. But a team of researchers from Turkey recently decided to ask a question that took ...
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You can only trust your memory so far. Our brains are pretty good at saving the information that lines up with the way we see the world and discarding the rest. Based ...
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Imagine you've just gotten out of a stressful surgical procedure, and you're now recovering in the hospital. What do you want more than anything? Just some peace and quiet, right? Well, peace, ...
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