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It can feel like everyone is stewing in anxiety about COVID-19 and seeing other people freak out can make you freak out more. A psychiatrist explains this phenomenon, and how to keep it in check.
Physically isolating yourself can feel psychologically isolating too. But there are ways to maintain connections in these crazy coronavirus times.
Research on stigma and discrimination – and LGBTQ people’s own stories – can help Americans make sense of Pete Buttigieg’s historic candidacy.
The captain of a ship, or a soul, doesn’t sail while ignoring the wind – sometimes they go with it, sometimes against it, but they always account for it.
A psychologist explains how to get a grip on anxiety triggered by COVID-19.
You don’t have to be labelled with a mental illness to seek help.
The growth mindset theory holds a person’s beliefs about their ability can be developed through effort. The fixed mindset holds a person’s abilities are fixed and can’t be changed.
There are many ways to be happy, but we can also find comfort in the knowledge that our constant dissatisfaction is what makes us human.
Why toilet paper? Concerns about control and hygiene are the likely reason, according to experts
Dominic Cummings should read up on a deeply flawed experiment from the 1940s before he reads through those job applications.
A dog psychologist looks at the presidential candidates’ relationships with dogs.
Fame changes the bonds that some African footballers have with their home communities.
How you feel about eating chips and wearing your pyjamas out – experiments show how differently you react when you’re being observed.
Young people are often seen as lacking but research shows they’re motivated by their concern for future generations.
Because most people want to be perceived as generous, sometimes monetary incentives for doing a good deed are counterproductive.
We don’t always realise it, but emotions play a positive role in decision making.
Rules help to shape society – but always question why they’re there and who they serve.
Americans tend to think that self-identified liberals and conservatives hold more extreme views than they actually do.
Psychologists have stigmatised science fiction fans as losers who retreat into fantasy worlds. This is unfair.
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
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Professor of Psychology, Monmouth University
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Trinity College Dublin
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor of the Psychology of Time, Liverpool John Moores University
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Cognitive and Parapsychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Reader in Applied Cognitive Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Reader in Consumer Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Social Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
