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Spending Habits Can Reveal Personality Traits

Spending Habits Can Reveal Personality Traits

Among the various types of data that are being collected about you while you browse the internet, you can bet that your spending habits are one of them. That raises the question ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Money, Personality
Meditation Apps Can Improve Attention, Memory

Meditation Apps Can Improve Attention, Memory

It’s sometimes said that our modern tech-driven, smartphone-oriented culture is making us all more distractible and less mindful. So how do meditation apps fit into that criticism? After all, they’re an example ...
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/ / Cognitive Psychology, Memory, Mindfulness, Positive Psychology
Bedtime Cues Matter for Teens

Bedtime Cues Matter for Teens

How do you know when it’s time to go to bed? Recently, researchers in Australia and Finland looked at how teenagers answer that question, and whether the way they answer it has ...
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/ / Health Psychology, Sleep, Teens
A Lunchtime Nap Can Boost Children's Academic Performance

A Lunchtime Nap Can Boost Children’s Academic Performance

We typically think of it as a bad thing to "fall asleep on the job." But when your job is learning, a midday nap might be just what the psychologist ordered. A ...
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/ / Children, Developmental Psychology, Health Psychology, Nap, Performance Psychology, School, Sleep
What's the Role of Politics in Therapy?

What’s the Role of Politics in Therapy?

Therapy is a place where anything can come up. The old adage about discussing politics and religion doesn’t necessarily apply. To learn more about how political views fit into the therapeutic process, ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Politics, Treatment
Millennials Don't Like Being Called Narcissists

Millennials Don’t Like Being Called Narcissists

Here’s a loaded question for you: how do you feel about being a narcissist? Like the classic example of "when did you stop beating your wife?", this is a question without a ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Narcissism
Awe and Self-Transcendence

Awe and Self-Transcendence

It’s interesting how many of our everyday concerns look petty when viewed from outer space. Experiences that inspire awe in us can shift our perspective and lead us to look beyond what’s ...
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/ / Awe, Positive Emotions, Positive Psychology
What Do Loneliness and Living Alone Mean for Health Later in Life?

What Do Loneliness and Living Alone Mean for Health Later in Life?

We all know what "loneliness" means, but defining it in a precise way gets a little tricky. For starters, being lonely isn’t exactly the same as being alone. And loneliness isn’t quite ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Depression, Developmental Psychology, Loneliness, Older Adults
People Probably Agree With You Less Than You Think

People Probably Agree With You Less Than You Think

If there’s one thing people never lack, it’s biases in how we think. One of these biases is what psychologists call the false consensus effect, where people tend to overestimate the extent ...
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/ / Cognitive Psychology, Politics, Relationships, Social Psychology
Courage Is Key for Entrepreneurs

Courage Is Key for Entrepreneurs

You need a lot of things to start a business. A good idea, the skills to turn that idea into reality, and some cold, hard cash. Increasingly, psychologists who study entrepreneurship believe ...
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/ / Entrepreneur, Performance Psychology, Positive Psychology, Work