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If you’re American – regardless of the color of your skin – racism structures how you think. Changing the system should change these implicit biases.
Social media is the refined sugar of human communication.
Irrational behaviour during difficult circumstances is rooted in deeper cognitive and evolutionary psychological mechanisms. Many reflect what are called emergency decision and purchasing contexts.
If teachers and students work together, then opportunities to share difficult personal stories can be constructive.
Your mouth might be obscured, but science shows you say a huge amount with your eyes.
Students are taught isolated and impersonal facts without understanding the history and processes of how scientists know what we know — an education in scientific literacy.
Research on how children learn show we develop language skills by recycling other parts of our minds.
The ‘good’ side of our nature is much more deep-rooted than the ‘evil’ side.
Good mental health is the ability to adapt to changes and stress. Whatever school looks like, parents can help keep kids’ social-emotional development on track in these four areas.
Whether you had COVID-19 or just stressed out about getting it, your brain’s hippocampus may have shrunk in the last few months.
Moral reasoning was impacted in school-age teenagers but not university students.
A South African study explored how psychology students benefited from an alternative approach to teaching and learning.
It will be possible to compare the outcomes of games with and without fans, giving new insights into the relationship between fans, home-field advantage and clutch performances.
To fight climate change, we need to take people’s cognitive biases into account.
It may be as simple as standing neutrally.
Psychologists call these traits the ‘Big Five’: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. A researcher suggests your profile implies your response to social distancing.
Many people experience love differently. But regardless of the differences in how it’s experienced and how it changes over time, humans are social creatures who are deeply fascinated by it.
As the pandemic drags on, uncertainty and fears about health and safety mix with confusion and challenges tied to re-opening society. You need flexibility when picking your coping strategies.
Working from home in the long run could be better for your health, or it could also be worse. It depends on how your employer supports you.
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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 in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Trinity College Dublin
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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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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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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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 Psychology, Edge Hill University
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Reader in Applied Cognitive Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Social Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
