Bubble life means spending time with different people, to aid psychological recovery, will not be an option for athletes in Tokyo.
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Strict enforcement of COVID-safe regulations in the Olympic Village could affect athletes’ mental health. Their performance could suffer too
Are you open to new ideas and willing to change your mind?
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Science denial is not new, but researchers have learned a lot about it. Here’s why it exists, how everyone is susceptible to it in one way or another and steps to take to overcome it.
The mating game often involves convoluted rationalizations.
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Both men and women play a role in perpetuating attitudes toward sex that are hypocritical and logically inconsistent.
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England players may be affected by the negative stereotype that they’re terrible in a penalty shootout.
The way Danes speak makes it much harder for Danish children to learn the language.
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Recent research on Danish shows that not only is it hard for Danish children to learn their mother tongue, but adult Danes use their native language differently than speakers of other languages.
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Many people with PTSD also have depression, anxiety or some other mental health issue. This treatment might help where other treatments haven’t.
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Values in adulthood rarely change. But major events, like wars — and pandemics — can shift our priorities.
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The condition challenges the centuries-old idea that all great artists are able to envision what they’re drawing.
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We used computer models to study the evolutionary benefits of identity fusion.
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A different interpretation of time might explain why people see their whole lives replayed to them in a split second.
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Consciousness is sometimes referred to as ‘the ghost’ in the machinery of our brain. Is it time we gave up the ghost to focus on the machine?
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Over half of respondents in a recent study hadn’t been asked for their opinions about returning to the office.
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Testing whether the birds react to sleight of hand helps us understand if they see the world like we do.
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Endurance is a surprisingly progressive way of creating a better future.
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The famous psychologist would have sympathy for Harry and senior royals – and some recommendations for royal watchers.
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Bias is a psychological process detectable in individual judgements. Noise is a different phenomenon affecting human decisions.
You don’t need to pick up exactly where you left off; you can think about how you want your life to look.
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After more than a year of idealizing life without COVID-19, people are starting to reenter ‘normal’ life. Clinical psychology provides guidance on how to prepare for your post-pandemic reboot.
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Why do groups of knowledgable people sometimes all make the same flawed decisions?
There’s virtually no association between self-esteem and sexual behavior.
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A new study finds that women are just as likely as men to assume something’s wrong with a woman who decides she wants to sleep with a handful of partners.
People who think they are superior have no qualms about attacking those they regard as inferior.
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A meta-analysis of 437 studies found that egomaniacs aren’t just a bummer – they can be dangerous, too.