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Real Good for Free: The Paradox of Leisure Time
The Huffington Post: I’m pretty busy. Like most people I know, I try to balance a lot of different things: a full-time job, household chores, cooking and meals, regular exercise, time with family and friends.
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Perception and Peak Performance
The New York Times: Like many of us during March Madness, Jessica Witt is a college basketball fan. She is also a professor of psychology at Purdue University. Those interests converged recently at a Purdue
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Brains of Kids With Math Anxiety Function Differently, Says Study
ABC: Kids who get the jitters before a math test may actually have different brain functions than kids without math anxiety, according to a new study. Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine recruited
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Good Reads: a new study on God and civilization
The Christian Science Monitor: In The New York Times, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee writes on how learning a second language at an early age makes your brain work better. Psychologists once worried that kids who lived in
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Rivalry Without Conflict
Take a gander at this cube. It will probably look weird because your visual system can’t decide how to perceive it. This persistent ambiguity is called visual rivalry, and in the case of the Necker
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A Wandering Mind Reveals Mental Processes and Priorities
Odds are you’re not going to make it all the way through this article without thinking about something else. In fact, studies have found that our minds are wandering half the time, drifting off to
