AllPsych Psychology Articles

It's no secret that having a negative body image can lower your self-esteem and make you depressed. But a team of researchers from Turkey recently decided to ask a question that took ...
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You can only trust your memory so far. Our brains are pretty good at saving the information that lines up with the way we see the world and discarding the rest. Based ...
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Imagine you've just gotten out of a stressful surgical procedure, and you're now recovering in the hospital. What do you want more than anything? Just some peace and quiet, right? Well, peace, ...
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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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Here's an idea you won't here about in, well, the media: we should have media literacy classes in schools. Despite how much information we get from the media, we don't talk much ...
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