(After) bed-time reading.
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An author picks her best reads for a scientific approach to raising children.
These scammers don’t exploit technological vulnerabilities – they exploit human ones.
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A number of factors – from our eagerness to place trust in people to our overconfidence in our own intelligence – make us easy prey.
What happens when an entire society succumbs to childlike behavior and discourse?
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Our social institutions and politics suffer from a collective arrested development – and our relationship to technology has only exacerbated this trend.
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The effect is much stronger in women than men.
Farmers experiencing drought-related stress need personal, financial and social support.
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Farmers experience drought-related stress. Improving their mental health enhances adaptive capacity and resilience. Drought support must address relationships between drought and mental health.
Family and friends have an important role to play in detecting suicide risk and supporting the person.
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Contrary to the common belief you shouldn’t talk about suicide because it plants the idea, asking someone if they plan to harm themselves can help.
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Culture plays a role in forming a child’s identity, conversational style and memory. This has many implications for how to deal with children, from school to the judicial system.
1-2% of children refuse to go to school.
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The beginning of a new school term is often met with resistance from kids who would prefer to stay on school holidays. But for some parents, getting their kids to go to school is an ongoing battle.
Narcissism: it’s more common than you might think.
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A recent study found that highly narcissistic people have thicker, denser eyebrows.
Is anybody there?
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It’s less about making more friends and more about changing the way we see the world.
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England’s out of the World Cup, but the UK can at least enjoy the weather… can’t it?
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A new study shows that writing about positive experiences for 20 minutes a day can reduce stress and anxiety.
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Why do some people love roller coasters while others hate them?
They’re missing out.
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New tools to help people use their smartphones in less detrimental ways are a good start, but could be even better at protecting users’ well-being.
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When sports coaches use psychological techniques and ideas that are based on shaky evidence, everyone loses.
We’re great at rationalising our own actions, whether it’s profiteering or eating meat.
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Under the right circumstances, most people will act in ways that are opposed to their own morals.
Found after nine days. Now rescue plans have begun.
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The looming prospect of a long stay in the cave has increased fears for the boys’ mental health.
“No, I didn’t eat any cake.”
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Children lying is rarely cause for concern and actually means your child is developmentally normal.
This is the real reason you believe in superstitions.
Can you choose not to?
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Your beliefs about free will can have a powerful effect on how you behave.