General Psychology

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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It's Monday. Of course it's Monday. In a study published this month in Anxiety, Stress & Coping, researchers from Macquarie University in Australia looked at how workplace incivility fluctuates over the course ...
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If I asked you why you believe the things you do, your first response probably wouldn't be "because of TV." But TV is a way we get information about the world, even ...
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Guilt and shame often get lumped together, but there's an essential difference between the two: guilt is about what you did while shame is about who you are. Feeling bad about your ...
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Old cliches notwithstanding, people often seek out partners similar to themselves in many ways. Researchers call this phenomenon "assortative mating." Perhaps mercifully, people are more likely to end up with partners who ...
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