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The anti-vax movement is no longer fuelled purely by fears about vaccines and harmful side-effects – there are other forces at play.
To learn to be more proactive, start by viewing yourself as someone who cares about the environment and the future.
Global leaders at COP26 need to understand what is at stake for each nation and build trust to achieve a successful outcome.
Mounting evidence suggests the best way to interview an adult, even someone accused of child abduction, is to draw on the same principles that underpin child interviewing.
The most important thing to avoid is intrusive, probing questioning straight away. The media and the public should also refrain from speculative, premature comment.
The quality of grit – passion and sustained persistence – is a useful predictor of burnout and exhaustion for doctors and maybe the rest of us too.
Social media during the pandemic is not all doom scrolling and despair. Lighter memes have psychological benefits.
There is more than one way to pursue happiness and to cope with the inevitable low times in life.
Many of us form destructive habits that prevent us forming long-lasting, healthy relationships. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Human beings evolved to nurture – and that drive can extend to children who aren’t your own and even to members of other species.
We may not be attracted to movie violence as much as people think.
The language around climate change can feel overwhelming. A psychology and public policy expert breaks it down in plain English.
Even when the condition lasts a lifetime, there are behavioral treatments and prescription drugs that make it easier for people with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder to thrive.
Cleo is the latest missing child case to grip the nation. And our fascination with every twist and turn of such cases can both help and be a curse.
Wes Anderson’s new film French Dispatch features a short that explores the connection between artistic genius and mental illness.
It’s human nature to unconsciously rely on quick rules to help make spur-of-the-moment decisions. New research finds physicians use these shortcuts, too, which can be bad news for some patients.
The thoughts are often distressing and punitive. Strikingly, these concerns vaporise in the daylight, proving that the 3am thinking was completely irrational and unproductive. But why?
It’s often triggered in an instant, social media users say, by witnessing some kind of turn-off – a bad dance move, a grating laugh or an eating style.
In many conflict areas, children are especially susceptible to the effects of war. And using them as soldiers prolongs the conflict.
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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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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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Reader in Applied Cognitive Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Reader in Consumer Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Social Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
