General Psychology

If you've ever gotten stuck in the jaws of a bureaucracy, you know that rules can do funny things to people. When people have a rule they can follow blindly, they tend ...
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Remembering new things like words in a foreign language can be tough, but an international team of researchers has a trick to make memorization a little easier on yourself. When I was ...
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Ever feel like from your emails to your calls to your web history, your whole life is on your mobile phone? You could be right. Lately, psychology researchers have been looking at ...
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Psychologists are taking the adage that "there's no such thing as a joke" to entirely new places, and they're finding that your sense of humor might say more about you than you ...
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A phobia or anxiety disorder is kind of like an onion. No, not because it can make you cry, but because it has several layers. First, there are the symptoms of the ...
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Reading a book might not just be a fun way to kill some time. According to a growing body of research, it can also make you better at understanding what other people ...
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"That's just how we do things." "That's just the way things are." "I don't see any reason not to do things that way." None of these are very compelling explanations for why ...
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Envy gets a bad rap. I mean, let's be real: being on a list of "seven deadly sins" isn't good PR for anyone. Fortunately, psychologists aren't always the types to judge a ...
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If you're like me, you spend a lot of time thinking about things other than what you're doing in the present moment. In fact, if you're like most people, your mind is ...
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Decades of psychology research have shown something that pretty much makes sense: people who belong to more social groups tend to be happier. People who belong to multiple social groups have more ...
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