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Do We Need Hugs to Be Happy? I Don’t.
Recently published reports in Discover and Psychology Today assert that hugs are essential for human happiness. According to Suzanne Deggs-White, a professor at Northern Illinois University who studies social relationships, our need to be hugged
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Collected Research on Autism Spectrum Disorder
Research on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) published in various APS journals between 2017 and 2021 in recognition of Autism Acceptance Month.
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Traffic Stops and Race: Police Conduct May Bend to Local Biases
Pierce Ekstrom discusses new research on the relationship between countywide attitudes toward race and local policing.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on language and counting, pain as social glue, perinatal conditions and gender nonconformity, constellations across cultures, generations and personality, attachment and hearing, app usage and identity, and sexism identification.
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Traffic Stops and Race: Police Conduct May Bend to Local Biases
New research covering tens of millions of U.S. traffic stops found that Black drivers were more likely than White drivers to be stopped by police in regions with a more racially biased White population.
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Personality and Birth Cohort: Does the Decade Make a Difference?
The generation people are born in might predict their personality traits and how they change as they grow older, this research suggests.