Personality tests played a central role in the recent Facebook scandal over corporate harvesting of personal data. Why are businesses so interested in them?
We don’t automatically question information we read or hear.
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Cognitive psychologists know the way our minds work means we not only don’t notice errors and misinformation we know are wrong, we also then remember them as true.
Your finger may hover, but it’s hard get rid of it once and for all.
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Social media provide shortcuts to things we yearn for, like connection and validation. Media effects scholars explain the psychological benefits we get from Facebook that make it so hard to quit.
Sharing experiences of #MeToo can open the flood gates for online abuse and physical threats.
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Today’s workplaces extend beyond physical spaces, so movements like #metoo must trigger change in how we behave online.
Exercise is recommended as an effective non-opioid strategy for non-cancer pain such as fibromyalgia and chronic low back pain. Yet most adults living with chronic pain do not exercise. Or they exercise very little.
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Research shows that exercise offers promise – as an alternative to prescription opioids – for relieving chronic pain.
Therapy dogs can decrease anxiety and stress in students, while getting them more excited about classroom activities.
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Research shows therapy dogs can be beneficial for students in many ways including reducing stress and anxiety, and helping students feel more excited about participating in classroom activities.
Teens’ brains develop different skills along a predictable timeline. These milestones should influence the legal age boundaries for voting, buying guns and being put to death.
Eminem performing in Chile in 2016.
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An affair is generally a sign things aren’t right with someone’s relationship. It occurs when one person sees an alternative relationship as a better way to meet their needs than their existing one.
Homes are surrounded by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey in Spring, Texas on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017.
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Despite strong evidence that human activities have altered the climate, not everyone sees the risks. New research explains why some people seem blind to the signs of climate change.
Harsh truth: you probably look more attractive in a group than on your own.
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When we lust for riches, fear being left behind and identify strongly with some moral cause all at once, reason and willpower don’t really stand a chance.
Generosity boosts reward mechanisms in the brain.
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