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Home / Posts Tagged: "psychology"
    • Human Interest

    The psychological perks of big data

    Simon Dennis     |      July 26, 2022

    The personal data we are now all generating is making it easier for researchers to take psychology out of the lab and into the field.

    • Human Interest

    When two hearts beat as one

    Open Forum     |      September 15, 2021

    People unconsciously synchronize bodily functions like heartbeat and breathing when they share an experience, such as a live performance or a personal conversation, according to new research.

    • Human Interest

    Can positive psychology change the world?

    Diane Nazaroff     |      May 3, 2021

    An open mind, an open heart and clear thinking are three core capabilities that underlie wise action and can help people and groups change the world for the better.

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    Counting the psychological cost of the lockdown

    Emma Young     |      April 10, 2020

    Will the social distancing and extreme hygiene practices advocated to fight COVID-19 be harmful or helpful for the long term?

    • Society

    Taking positive psychology into the classroom

    Anders Furze     |      July 24, 2019

    Positive psychology in schools can help students maintain their well-being and develop the skills they need for study and later life.

    • Human Interest

    What is déjà vu? What is déjà vu?

    Kate Stanton     |      January 20, 2019

    Many of us have had the experience of seeing or doing something and it feeling eerily familiar, but what do we know about what’s happening when we get déjà vu?

    • Human Interest

    Understanding the ‘pavement polka’

    Erin Munro     |      January 16, 2019

    Understanding how pedestrians negotiate space and oncoming people on crowded city pavements offers insights into the working of our brains.

    • Culture

    Making New Year’s resolutions more personal could help them stick

    Bernice Plant     |      December 31, 2018

    Many of us embark on life-improving resolutions in the new year, but few of us maintain the effort. Picking personal goals, rather than those suggested by others, could be the key to success.

    • Culture

    How to build self-control by copying others

    Sabine Doebel     |      August 6, 2018

    Self-control can appear an inborn trait but identifying with people who display it can help build our own willpower too.

    • Science and Technology

    The error in thinking at the root of science denial

    Jeremy Shapiro     |      May 17, 2018

    There are three important issues on which there is scientific consensus but controversy among laypeople: climate change, biological evolution and childhood vaccination. Many science deniers do cite empirical evidence, but the problem is that they do so in invalid, misleading ways.

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