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The Technology of Kindness
How social media can rebuild our empathy—and why it must
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Cancer Research in a Nutshell
A Web site called OncoBites offers short, easy-to-understand reports on what’s new in the field
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3 Secrets to Beat Performance Anxiety
Performance anxiety makes us second-guess everything from how to shoot a free throw to what to say next in an interview
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Making Things We Know Will Disappear
For those stifled by shades of perfectionism, temporary media can remind us how to create things for the fun of it
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How to Resist the Lure of Overconfidence
A practical guide to putting things in perspective
Biotech
Can an Illusory World Help Treat Psychosis’s Real-World Delusions?
Psychologists launch a clinical trial to gauge whether virtual reality can quell the fears of patients with the mental disorder
Mental Health
5 Unofficial Types of Depression
Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen covers five of the most common faces of depression
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Babies Want Fair Leaders
Babies as young as a year and a half want leaders to fix situations in which they see someone else being treated unfairly.
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Where Do Psychiatrists Go when a Patient Dies?
I struggled with a terrible loss, and it made me realize that our field must do better
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The Internet Is a Cesspool of Racist Pseudoscience
The author of Superior: The Return of Race Science knows this from firsthand experience
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What Market Research Can Learn from Baseball
The data points we choose to focus on determine how we see the world
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How to Fight Toxic Masculinity
The code of toxic masculinity requires that men are dominant over everyone else, have no needs, show no emotion and are always #winning
Does Technology Spell Doom for Close Relationships?
Research shows it’s not helping, but solutions do exist
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The Temptation of the Sorting Hat
Because sometimes tools designed to help us assess performance and potential just don’t
Behavior
Universal Desire: Men and Women Respond Identically to Erotic Images
The result is not the final word, as findings will likely turn up the heat on questions of divergent sexual arousal
Behavior
The Truth about Anti-White Discrimination
Many white Americans feel that discrimination against whites is on the rise. Experiments suggests otherwise
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The Neurodiversity Movement Should Acknowledge Autism as a Medical Disability
Autism doesn’t have to define a person’s identity
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Think You’re Too Old to Learn New Tricks?
Research shows that acquiring additional skills can be a terrific way to keep an aging brain in shape
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What Alfred Binet and Maria Montessori Can Teach Us about Intelligence
They found ways to develop human intellect, including in students thought to have limited prospects
Behavior
Attractive Young Females May Have Justice Edge
Youths rated as attractive were less likely to have negative encounters with the criminal justice system—but only if they were women. Christopher Intagliata reports.
