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The Retirement Fear Factor
If you’re like a majority of American adults, you aren’t putting away enough money to keep your current standard of living when you retire. When you’re young, retirement seems light years away. But most financial advisers have far less patience for middle-aged workers who lack a strong savings plan. But for many workers, fear — rather than complacency — may be the reason certain individuals are not putting enough money away, according to a recently published study. In fact, anxiety about retirement can actually disrupt an individual’s capacity to digest information about retirement planning, Oklahoma State University psychological researchers found.
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Students Remember More With Personalized Review, Even After Classes End
A computer-based individualized study schedule boosted students’ recall on subsequent tests.
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Is Narcissism Essential for Success?
While narcissists are likely to garner leadership positions, there’s no evidence of a link between narcissism and a leader’s success.
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Loss Attention in a Dual-Task Setting Eldad Yechiam and Guy Hochman Can losses actually make you perform better? The authors tested the hypothesis known as the loss-attention model, in which losses draw attention to the current task and, as a result, increase sensitivity to the task's incentive structure. Participants performed a decision-making task involving gains or losses. The task was performed alone (single-task condition) or with a secondary task (dual-task condition).
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Dysregulated Positive Emotion Predicts Disordered Eating
Considerable research explores the relationship between negative emotion and disordered eating behaviors, such as binge eating and purging. But a new study suggests that positive emotions may also play a role in rewarding and maintaining
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Celebrating 25 Years of Science in Perspectives
The fourth and final special section recognizing the 25th anniversary of APS is published in the January 2014 issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science. The special section, like those that came before it, examines the evolution of psychological science over the last quarter century. The special section articles span a variety of topics, including psychotherapy for children and adolescents, treatments for mental illness outside the therapist's office, the effects of insulin on brain function, measuring experiences of pleasure and pain, and understanding familial risk for depression. Building Robust Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents John R.