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Scientists Identify a Personality Feature That Could Predict How Often You Exercise
Individuals who make concrete plans to meet their goals may engage in more physical activity, including visits to the gym, compared to those who don’t plan quite so far ahead, research shows.
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Why George Clooney Made Coffee Sexy
In the marketing world, pairing a star with a brand imbues that brand with the celebrity’s attributes.
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APS Fellow Among Psychological Scientists Named CASBS Fellows
Four psychological scientists, including APS Fellow Su-Ling Yeh of National Taiwan University, are among 37 scholars named to the 2019-2020 class of fellows at The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. The CASBS fellowship brings together scholars for a year of reflection and academic interaction. The Center strives to bring diverse thinkers together to produce collective knowledge and transformative outcomes that could not be achieved independently.
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How to increase access to gifted programs for low-income and black and Latino children
Many of the public school gifted and talented programs that serve high-ability students don’t reflect the diversity of their communities. New York City, with roughly 1.1 million students, is an extreme example. While roughly 4 in 6 of its kindergartners are black or Latino, those children account for only about about 1 in 6 of all public school students identified as gifted and talented.Concerns about this underrepresentation recently led a School Diversity Advisory Group appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio to recommend that the city’s school system end all gifted and talented programs in its elementary and middle schools.
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Children with an older brother have poorer language skills than those with a big sister
The role of birth order in shaping who we are has been a matter of some debate in psychology. Recent research has cast doubt on the idea that an individual's position in relation to their siblings influences their personality, for instance. But there may be other domains where birth order is still important: in particular, researchers have found that children with a greater number of older siblings seem to have worse verbal skills. However, a new study published in Psychological Science has found that the situation is a bit more complicated than that.
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‘Great Recession’ linked to long-term mental health issues: study
Millions of Americans are still recovering from the “Great Recession” of 2008. But it’s not just their finances that took a hit. Those who suffered financial hardships due to the ruinous economic downturn are also more likely to be depressed, anxious and use drugs now, according to new research published in Clinical Psychological Science. “Individuals who experienced even a single recession impact still had higher odds of nearly all of the adverse mental health outcomes we examined — including clinically significant symptoms of depression, generalized anxiety, panic and problems with drug use,” said lead researcher Miriam Forbes of Macquarie University in Sydney.
