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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on financial resilience, pornography use, the categorization of social groups, learning by drawing, action coordination to achieve joint goals, and the representation of human imagination in the brain.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on attention to emotional stimuli, representations of time and number, choice and control, gender stereotypes in language, impressions of other people, gender gaps in negotiation, perceptual features in visual memory, the benefit of talent in team performance, and how children process what adults say.
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Caught in a COVID Romance: How the Pandemic has Rewritten Relationships
... Psychologists and relationship experts say the pandemic has no doubt made people reconsider their relationships, especially as quarantine began to highlight longstanding issues. Kerry Lusignan, a licensed mental health counselor and founder of Northampton Couples Therapy said her clinic had been getting up to a hundred calls a week from couples seeking help. Clients are often bringing up issues – mostly around safety and threat – that counselors are familiar with but which have been exacerbated by the pandemic. ...
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‘Right Now Feels So Long and Without Any End in Sight’
Those thoughts, typed into a digital journal on May 30, could stand as an anthem for this tragic pandemic year, a cry recognized around the world without explanation or context. Yet there is plenty of context from this writer, richly detailed and in weekly installments: “We mourn time lost and experiences lost,” she continued, later. “But we remind ourselves often that we don’t have to mourn the loss of life, and for that we are grateful.” She cited a favorite slogan: We were together, I forget the rest. The entries are among more than 6,500 from some 750 people of all ages and diverse backgrounds who have been keeping digital diaries on the same platform.
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As More Women Enter Science, It’s Time to Redefine Mentorship
WHEN A GROUP of researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi published a paper in Nature Communications last fall suggesting that young women scientists should seek out men as mentors, the backlash was swift and vociferous. Countless scientists, many of them women, registered their indignation on Twitter—some even penning open letters and their own preprints in response. The original paper had found that female junior scientists who authored papers with male senior scientists saw their papers cited at higher rates. But a number of critics contested the assertion that this result established a link between male mentors and career performance.
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Individuals With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Were Excluded From COVID-19 Vaccine Priority Guidelines
It is critical that the entire I/DD population gains access to priority vaccines, writes developmental psychologist Emily Hotez.
