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Build Up Big-Team Science
Are some of science’s biggest questions simply unanswerable without redefining how research is done? This is the question that motivated the researchers who would later establish the ManyBabies Consortium: a grass-roots network of some 450 collaborators from more than 200 institutions who pool resources to complete massive studies on infant development (see, for example, ref. 1). Human infants are perhaps the most powerful learning machines on the planet — and understanding how that learning occurs could inform artificial intelligence, public policy, education and more. Yet a full understanding of infant learning seemed difficult (if not impossible) under the current research model.
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Childhood Health and Cultural Inequalities: Women Pay the Price
A culturally underprivileged childhood increases a person’s risk of being less physically active in adulthood. This risk is greater for women than for men, according to new research published in the journal Psychological Science.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on nonsuicidal self-injury, emotion, pregnancy and mental health during COVID-19, rumination and learning, psychopathology models, antisocial behavior, close relationships and COVID-19, and the use of personality traits to predict mental health.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on number-to-space mapping, linguistic cues of lies in real life, stress and inflammation, fear responses, visual perception, group membership and copy of behaviors, how a narrative can change support for extremism, and object perception.
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Debunking Four Common Myths of Psychological Science
Under the Cortex takes a skeptical deep dive to explore some the most common myths about psychological science and the brain.
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‘No Regrets’ Is No Way to Live
“No Regrets.” It’s an alluring motto, a handy recipe for success and satisfaction. Reject the pain of looking backward, revel in the pleasure of dreaming forward, and the good life will ensue. Little wonder that this simple maxim transcends political and cultural divides. The Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale —Christian, conservative, mentor to Republican presidents—urged his followers to drop the very word “regret” from their vocabularies. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg —Jewish, liberal, appointee of Democratic presidents—concurred.
