General Psychology

Let’s talk about creativity, man. In 2012, residents of Washington state voted to make recreational marijuana illegal. This year, researchers from Washington State University published a study aiming to clarify the relationship ...
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Terrorist attacks perpetrated by people acting alone come seemingly out of nowhere, but they have the potential to cause devastating loss. Recently, a group of researchers from the Netherlands and the United ...
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One of the most important things people learn in college may be … how to learn. It’s hard to learn anything, obviously, if you don’t know how to learn. OK, I’m simplifying ...
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It looks like we may be able to add a less extreme stress response to the list of benefits associated with physical activity. A new study published in the journal Anxiety, Stress ...
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People generally aren’t slow to form first impressions of each other. In fact, it turns out we jump to all sorts of conclusions based only on how someone says "hello." Trustworthiness is ...
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People who are experiencing depression have more trouble self-regulating as well as exerting control over their own thoughts and actions. It’s possible, then, that honing peoples self-control could reduce their depressive symptoms ...
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The human brain is amazingly plastic. It adapts when we learn new skills – and sometimes, when we stop using and forget old ones. Recently, a group of researchers from Germany and ...
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If you want to listen to some music, you have plenty of options for how to do it: alone or with others, live or on a recording. And as it turns out, ...
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Grandiose narcissism isn’t so hard to spot – just give a grandiose narcissist enough time, and they’ll probably make it clear that they think they’re pretty great. Vulnerable narcissism is a little ...
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Every adult psychopath was once a child. But was every adult psychopath once a child psychopath? The verdict is still out on how and when psychopathy emerges, but it does appear that ...
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