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Researchers say math anxiety starts young
The Washington Post: Math problems make more than a few students — and even teachers — sweat, but new brain research is providing insights into the earliest causes of the anxiety so often associated with
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Using the Psychology of Evil To Do Good
Science: Forty years after presiding over the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, Phil Zimbardo has reinvented himself as a social entrepreneur, leading a new project that will attempt to turn the Stanford Prison Experiment and other
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Mind Reading: Positive Psychologist Martin Seligman on the Good Life
TIME: These days Martin Seligman, author of the best-selling book Authentic Happiness, is perhaps best known as a father of positive of psychology — the study of people’s strengths and virtues, rather than on pathological behavior.
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Want to truly know yourself? Ask a friend
Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel: How well do we know ourselves? “It’s a natural tendency to think we know ourselves better than others do,” says Simine Vazire, an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis and
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Uomo: fare il macho è un mestiere difficile
TGCOM: Anche i machi hanno la vira dura. Anzi durissima: guadagnarsi la fama di “tipo tosto” è un cammino lungo e complicato, mentre è facilissimo, purtroppo, perdere il titolo dopo averlo conquistato. Tant’è vero che
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Center for Vital Longevity
The first of the United States’ 78 million baby boomers is turning 65 this year, at a rate of about one every 10 seconds. As life expectancy for older Americans increases, the impact of normal
