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COVID-19 After One Year: What Will the Future Bring?
Think back over the Year of COVID: what images strike in your mind? Correspondent Martha Teichner asked six prominent public figures to remember and reflect. "Just empty cities across the world," said urban studies theorist Richard Florida. "Broadway, just empty," said "Hamilton" star Renée Elise Goldsberry. "Store after store, first closing, and then shutting down," said economist Laura Tyson. Civil rights advocate Mary Frances Berry said, "People are parked day, after day, after day." "Masks, so that'd be number one," said psychologist Steven Pinker.
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Emotion and Long-Lasting Attitudes and Opinions
New research published in the journal Psychological Science reveals that attitudes based on feelings and emotions can also stand the test of time.
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Opinions and Attitudes Can Last When They Are Based on Emotion
Emotionality can create enduring opinions, shedding new light on the factors that make attitudes last.
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Despite Good News, You’re Not Feeling Better. There’s A Reason Why.
For those on the left and right who welcomed Biden's election, the inaugural transition seemed like the moment to finally leave behind the psychological toll of the deception, bullying, and deadly incompetence that characterized the Trump administration.
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Humans Are Pretty Lousy Lie Detectors
Member/Author: Christiane Gelitz On television, it all looks so simple. For a fraction of a second, the suspect raises the corner of his mouth. He is happy because he thinks the investigators are wrong about where he planted the bomb. But when his interrogator mentions the correct place, the terrorist’s face betrays a flash of rage. And he shrugs his shoulders as he pronounces his innocence. The evidence is open-and-shut as far as the expert is concerned: The suspect’s body language contradicts his words. He is lying. The expert on microexpressions in the TV series Lie to Me is the alter ego of Paul Ekman, age 86, a world-renowned researcher of lying and emotion.
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Journals Singled Out For Favoritism
When Didier Raoult published several studies last year purporting to show the promise of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, critics quickly denounced his methods. Raoult, a microbiologist at Aix-Marseille University, now faces disciplinary action by a French medical regulator, and the drug has largely been discredited as a COVID-19 treatment. But some researchers had another concern: Raoult’s astonishingly prolific publication in the journal New Microbes and New Infections, where some of Raoult’s collaborators serve as associate editors and editor-in-chief. Since the journal’s creation in 2013, Raoult’s name appeared on one-third of its 728 papers.
