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Sleep Deprivation Messes With Autobiographical Memory

Sleep Deprivation Messes With Autobiographical Memory

It’s well known by now that a lack of sleep can interfere with learning and memory. What’s relatively less studied is how sleep deprivation affects the memories we form of our personal ...
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Living in a More Diverse Neighborhood Might Make You a Better Person

Living in a More Diverse Neighborhood Might Make You a Better Person

The people around us influence how we see the world, so perhaps it’s not so surprising that who our neighbors are plays a role in determining how we interact with society. New ...
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Biking in the City Is Enough to Give Anyone Paranoia

Biking in the City Is Enough to Give Anyone Paranoia

Riding your bike to work will put you in better shape and help protect the environment. Apparently, it’ll also make you a little paranoid. That’s according to a new paper titled State ...
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The Different Ways People Use Their Autobiographical Memories

The Different Ways People Use Their Autobiographical Memories

Your life story is unique, and how you use it might be a matter of individual preference too. Different people use their autobiographical memories in different ways, and a person’s age, gender ...
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Is a Social Blunder Less Embarrassing If It's Unintentional?

Is a Social Blunder Less Embarrassing If It’s Unintentional?

Is flouting social rules more forgivable if it’s done as a genuine accident than if it’s intentional? Depends who you ask, apparently. In particular, whether people have higher or lower levels of ...
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Feelings of Happiness Make Teens More Tolerant Toward Asylum Seekers

Feelings of Happiness Make Teens More Tolerant Toward Asylum Seekers

How British teenagers feel about young people seeking asylum depends in part on how happy they currently feel, according to a new study from researchers at University of Surrey, University of Birmingham ...
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Knocking Down Walls in Virtual Reality Can Boost Creativity

Knocking Down Walls in Virtual Reality Can Boost Creativity

Creativity can be thought of as a process of breaking down walls between different ideas. Now, a team of researchers in China and the United States have taken that metaphor to entirely ...
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Clinton Voters Still Haven't Recovered Psychologically

Clinton Voters Still Haven’t Recovered Psychologically

The outcome of the 2016 election was a shock for many. And apparently, some Clinton voters still haven’t gotten over that shock psychologically. If you don’t believe me, just check out a ...
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Craving as Part of Gaming Addiction

Craving as Part of Gaming Addiction

Can one person be addicted to video games the way another person might be addicted to a drug? Psychologists agree that it’s possible to be addicted to behaviors like gambling. There’s still ...
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Response to Everyday Stress Predicts Health a Decade Later

Response to Everyday Stress Predicts Health a Decade Later

Whether you dwell on relatively minor, everyday stressful situations could foreshadow what the future holds when it comes to your physical health. That’s the eye-catching, and possibly somewhat stressful, finding from a ...
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