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Peer Pressure, Public Messaging Will Affect Behaviour When Rules Loosen: Experts
Peer pressure and public messaging will influence Canadians’ ability and willingness to maintain safe behaviours as restrictions around COVID-19 begin to loosen, some experts say as they warn fines and snitch lines may not be effective as long-term solutions. The pandemic that has caused thousands of deaths across the country has also forced people from all walks of life to radically alter their behaviour in a matter of weeks. Those new habits will be tweaked and tested in the coming months as businesses and public spaces gradually reopen, with officials stressing the need to keep up precautions such as physical distancing.
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Psychologist: ‘Each Person is Suffering in Their Own Way’
Video interview with APS Member Angela Duckworth Angela Duckworth, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, tells Ali Velshi and Dr. Zeke Emanuel that stress and anxiety related to COVID-19 are normal, but they are much worse "if you feel you are in it by yourself.” ... Watch full interview at link below.
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Your Loss, My Gain? Sharing Economy May Widen Wealth Gap
“Contract trading”—in which contract pricing replaces traditional wage setting—lowers freelance contractors’ perceived value and actual earnings alike, even when their actual work product is identical to that of a traditional employee.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on machine learning and measurement errors, executive function development, negative academic experiences, colorism in Asia, a meta-analytic investigation about the HEXACO model of personality, the use of tools and the human mind, and birthing consciousness as an altered state of consciousness.
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How Not to Apologize in Quarantine
APS Member/Author: Adam Grant No matter how hard we try to avoid it, we’re all doomed to hurt those we love. In quarantine, despite our best efforts, we’re all destined to annoy those we love. People are discovering they can’t stand the way their partners chew, talk and brush the cat. One woman even told her partner that if he dropped his pen one more time, they’d be heading for divorce. “This entire experience has made me very much aware that I want a man in my life, just not in my house,” Chris Enss, a comedian, quipped. “Yesterday the man asked me where we keep the spoons. The spoons, for God’s sake! We’ve been married 31 years.
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Americans Didn’t Wait For Their Governors To Tell Them To Stay Home Because Of COVID-19
APS Member/Author: Kyle Bourassa A favorite new debate taking place around the Twitter hearth is whether complying with social distancing guidelines is a partisan statement in and of itself. Blue states, such as Washington and New York, were initially hit hardest by the COVID-19 crisis, and stay-at-home orders went into effect as early as March 19 (California was first out of the gate). A number of red states have refrained from implementing such public-safety orders, and many Republican-leaning states, particularly in the South, didn’t issue orders for weeks afterward — as late as April 3 in Florida and Georgia. Florida Gov.