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Grief, Unedited
The New York Times: EVER since Joan Didion’s book “The Year of Magical Thinking” began its long run as a best seller in 2005, a number of first-person accounts of losing a husband have been Visit Page
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Does Social Anxiety Disorder Respond to Psychotherapy? Brain Study Says Yes
When psychotherapy is helping someone get better, what does that change look like in the brain? This was the question a team of Canadian psychological scientists set out to investigate in patients suffering from social Visit Page
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Anger trumped terror on 9/11
If a terrorist attack provokes mostly anger instead of fear, does that mean it has failed? It’s an intriguing question in light of a new study, which tracked Americans’ negative emotions throughout the day of Visit Page
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Under Pressure: Stress and Decision Making
A common way that researchers induce stress in study volunteers is by making them give a speech. In that case, there were plenty of opportunities during the APS 22nd Annual Convention to see the stress Visit Page
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The New Phrenology?
Phrenology was the intellectual rage of 19th century America. Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman each incorporated bits of the popular personality theory into his works, and Herman Melville went so far as to make Visit Page
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The ironic power of stereotype
Brent Staples is an editorial writer for the New York Times and a University of Chicago-trained psychologist. He is also African-American, and back in the 70s, when he was doing his graduate studies, he discovered Visit Page
