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The Psychological Similarities Between Professional Gamers and Baseball Players

The Psychological Similarities Between Professional Gamers and Baseball Players

Some day soon, the Olympic Games may have video games on the schedule. "But video games aren’t a real sport," you cry. And yet, besides the obvious analogy between video games and ...
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/ / Gaming, Media Psychology & Technology
Optimists Sleep Better at Night

Optimists Sleep Better at Night

Do you ever wake up in the night and worry about what the future might hold? Well, if you’re an optimist, maybe not. A new study published in the Journal of Sleep ...
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/ / Health Psychology, Optimism, Sleep
Why Do Most People Cradle Babies Facing Left?

Why Do Most People Cradle Babies Facing Left?

If I hand you a baby without warning, chances are you’ll instinctively take them and cradle them with their head on your left side. Approximately 70 percent of people prefer to hold ...
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/ / Developmental Psychology
The Psychology of Finding the Silver Lining

The Psychology of Finding the Silver Lining

Finding something good in a bad situation is a common way of coping with adversity, as can be seen when we talk about clouds, silver linings, and the like. It’s also a ...
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/ / Optimism, Positive Psychology, Psychological Capital
How to Enforce Social Distancing? Your Answer Might Depend on Who's Breaking the Rules

How to Enforce Social Distancing? Your Answer Might Depend on Who’s Breaking the Rules

An ethical question raised by the pandemic is what to do about people who don’t take it upon themselves to follow public health recommendations. Generally, there are two approaches: educate people and ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, COVID, Health Psychology
The Advantages of Unrealistic Optimism

The Advantages of Unrealistic Optimism

Having a realistic view of the world might be overrated. One of the first psychology papers to explicitly make that case was published in 1988 by Shelley Taylor and Jonathon Brown, under ...
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/ / Optimism, Positive Psychology, Psychological Capital
3 Traits That Might Help With Jobs Involving Trauma

3 Traits That Might Help With Jobs Involving Trauma

Certain jobs put an extra burden on the mental health of people who do them because they frequently involve dealing with traumatic situations. Not everyone who does potentially traumatic jobs experiences negative ...
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/ / Anxiety, Clinical Psychology, Stress & Trauma, Work
The Most and Least Enjoyable Daily Activities During Quarantine

The Most and Least Enjoyable Daily Activities During Quarantine

Finding activities that bring positive emotions into your life has always been important, but it gained a new urgency when daily life was turned upside down by the pandemic. With lockdowns going ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, COVID, Health Psychology
Do Different Addictions Have the Same Risk Factors?

Do Different Addictions Have the Same Risk Factors?

From substance use to compulsive behaviors, addiction can take a variety of forms. Given that range of possible addictions, psychology researchers are still trying to figure out the extent to which different ...
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/ / Addiction, Behavioral Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Risk
Narcissism Linked to Voter Turnout, Political Activity

Narcissism Linked to Voter Turnout, Political Activity

Say what you will about narcissists, but at least they turn out to do their civic duty. That’s according to a new paper titled Narcissism and Political Participation from researchers in the ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, Narcissism, Politics