General Psychology

Does Becoming a Mother Affect Self-Esteem?

Does Becoming a Mother Affect Self-Esteem?

Having a child is one of the biggest changes you can experience in life, so it seems reasonable to guess that parenthood could bring all kinds of psychological changes. Recently, a group ...
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The Psychology of an Economic Recession

The Psychology of an Economic Recession

Economics and psychology are entangled in complex ways. All the psychotherapy in the world won’t make you happy if you don’t have enough money to live. I’ve written on here before about ...
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Alcohol Can Enhance Some Kinds of Creativity

Alcohol Can Enhance Some Kinds of Creativity

On Wednesday, I wrote about research into the psychology of beer tasting. Today, we’re going to stick with the theme and look at a study on how a little alcohol can make ...
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The Psychology of Beer Tasting

The Psychology of Beer Tasting

If you’re going to participate in a psychology study, you could do worse than one where you’re asked to taste nine different beers. That’s the study researchers in New Zealand ran recently ...
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Boredom Proneness Predicts Teens' Risk Behaviors

Boredom Proneness Predicts Teens’ Risk Behaviors

Nothing good happens when teenagers get bored – at least, that’s what a new study from researchers at University of Bologna in Italy suggests. In the study, published in Psychological Reports, researchers ...
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How Loneliness Can Contribute to the Onset of Depression

How Loneliness Can Contribute to the Onset of Depression

This week brings us a study on a somewhat, well, depressing topic: how loneliness makes people depressed and how depression makes people lonely. Granted, it doesn’t take a scientist to know that ...
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Money Won't Make You Happy, Unless You Use It to Buy Time

Money Won’t Make You Happy, Unless You Use It to Buy Time

Time is money, they say. But what’s less often talked about is that things go in the other direction too: money is time. That is, if you have enough money, you can ...
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Overweight Asian Americans Are Perceived as More "American"

Overweight Asian Americans Are Perceived as More “American”

Being overweight can make Asian Americans less likely to experience racial prejudice, according to new research. The study, titled Unexpected Gains: Being Overweight Buffers Asian Americans From Prejudice Against Foreigners was published ...
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The Psychology of a Good Pep Talk

The Psychology of a Good Pep Talk

You can’t have a good sports movie without an inspirational pep talk. But in real life, do these heartfelt motivational speeches really work? A group of psychologists and kinesiologists from Belgium recently ...
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When Does Ingratiating Yourself Work?

When Does Ingratiating Yourself Work?

Psychologists call it ingratiation. Most people call it trying to make people like you or, in certain contexts, brown-nosing. When it works, you increase the supply of good will people have for ...
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