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Meditation Retreats May Have Lasting Mental Health Benefits
Meditation is an increasingly popular mental health tool, and if you’ve heard about any of the recent research suggesting several health benefits to meditation, you might have been tempted to try meditating ...
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Is There a Perfectly Boring Task?
Boredom research is a fairly popular area of study in psychology recently. It’s not to be confused with boring research because it can give us some interesting insights into how people work, ...
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Can Pursuing Happiness Make You Unhappy?
How’s this for a cruel paradox: the more you want to be happy, the less happy you become. I’m not just suggesting that idea as a thought experiment. According to some research, ...
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Reminiscence and Mental Health
An occasional trip down memory lane might be just what the psychologist ordered, at least according to a study published last month by researchers from Australia. To learn about the therapeutic effects ...
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Undertakers Aren’t Funny + Other Insights From Humor Research
They say the best way to ruin a joke is to explain it. But conducting a scientific study on it must be a close second. Humor research is a serious field of ...
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Who Is Most Sensitive to Injustice?
Does witnessing injustice makes your blood boil? Or if not your blood, then maybe your bilateral mid insular cortex? A new study from researchers at University of Bern has found that people ...
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Study Finds Widespread Workplace Bullying at Dunder Mifflin
A group of researchers from Trinity University and University of Kentucky have carried out an extensive inquiry into workplace bullying at Dunder Mifflin, the fictional Scranton-based paper company featured in the U.S ...
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5 Teaching Tips to Encourage Active Learning
We all know students learned better when they have a chance to get actively involved in the learning process. After all, it’s not so hard to see that students are going to ...
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Self-Compassion: A Life-Changing Skill
It’s a cliche to say that we’re out own worst critics. But if you read the AllPsych blog very much, you know that psychology researchers are in the business of showing that ...
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3 Differences Between Younger and Older Siblings
Well, here’s the first one: younger siblings are cooler. Just kidding. Despite having a horse in this race, I’ll try to maintain some objectivity and give older siblings a fair shake. In ...
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