General Psychology

You are what you eat, and if findings from a study published this month hold up, you learn what you eat too. In the study, Finnish researchers surveyed 161 children in Grade ...
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Here are the only two things you really need to know about money: Our society is based on money. Money doesn't always bring out the best in people. Put these together, and ...
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The smile is one of the most common facial expressions, but what do you really know about it? Probably not as much as you think. Psychologists studying the smile have made some ...
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People with ADHD often have comorbid conditions like substance abuse, alcoholism and binge eating. According to some new research from a doctoral candidate at Linköping University in Sweden, a lot of the ...
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If you have two things you want to learn, what's the best way to learn them? The intuitive answer would be to focus on learning one, then move on and learn the ...
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Kids are spending too much time glued to screens instead of going outside these days, or so the story goes. But does this wariness of video games and similar activities hold up ...
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Everyone would agree that being able to recover from setbacks is a good skill to have. But seeing the world through rose-tinted glasses might seem like a less obvious entry in the ...
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It's a cliche to say that living in the present moment is the key to happiness. But like a lot of cliches, it might contain a kernel of scientific truth. Psychologists call ...
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People have both cooperative and competitive instincts that run deep. As long as people have been around, there have been some situations that require working with others and some situations where you ...
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Even if we aren't always aware of it, we all have tricks we use to manage our emotions on a day-to-day basis. One of these is that we engage in different activities ...
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