psychology

25/06/2018 - 14:05

Less than a decade earlier, measles had been largely eliminated in the US. The gradual resurgence can, researchers say, be directly... →

31/05/2018 - 00:17

The older you get the more difficult it is to learn to speak French like a Parisian. But no one knows exactly what the cutoff point is—at... →

23/05/2018 - 10:43

But Robert W. Coleman Elementary School has been doing something different when students act out: offering meditation. Instead of... →

08/04/2018 - 16:49

“Beyond simply becoming more positive or negative, people spontaneously shift toward using more emotional language when trying to persuade... →

11/03/2018 - 15:37

Although it’s already well known that we should pace our studies, new research suggests that we should aim for “minimal interference”... →

26/02/2018 - 10:16

But what about the people who tend to see the glass as half empty rather than half full? Is being pessimistic always such a bad thing?... →

22/02/2018 - 10:51

“Why should we think common sense is a good guide to what the universe is like?” says Philip Goff, a philosophy professor at Central... →

12/02/2018 - 15:42

However, in the East, space is understood a bit differently. In Japan, spaces have meanings prior to any activity that happens within them... →

11/02/2018 - 13:21

In the 19th and 20th centuries, scholars largely abandoned these supernatural ideas. Prominent figures such as Sigmund Freud... →

06/02/2018 - 12:37

We are therefore easily able to put ourselves in Offred’s shoes and feel empathy towards her. It taps into our very human capacity to share... →

22/01/2018 - 16:31

But what if this attitude has it exactly backwards? What if the key to success isn’t trying hard but not trying very hard at all? The idea... →

09/01/2018 - 16:03

Her dismissiveness wasn’t a surprise. By any measure, Freud was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. Following his... →

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