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How Scarcity Leads to Spending
TIME: Will economic uncertainty make you save more — or spend more? The answer may depend on your childhood experience, a new study suggests. The research, published in Psychological Science could help explain why poverty
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Troubled Family Life Changes Kids’ Brains
Scientific American: Stress and neglect at home take an obvious toll on kids as they grow up. Many decades of research have documented the psychological consequences in adulthood, including struggles with depression and difficulties maintaining
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Unshakable Humanity: Altruism and Disaster
The Huffington Post: In May of 2008, a massive earthquake hit China’s Sichuan province. The earthquake measured 8.0 and could be felt as far away as Pakistan, Vietnam and Russia. The shaking lasted a full
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All In The Mind
Australian Broadcasting Radio: Memory – it’s the thread that runs through our lives, but how are our early memories formed? Psychologists are finding that the way we talk with our young children and tell them family
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If We Go Over the Fiscal Cliff, Will People Spend or Save? Childhood Environments May Hold the Key
In the face of hard times, which strategy gives us the best shot at survival: saving for the future or spending resources on immediate gains? The answer may depend on the economic conditions we faced
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Disharmony in the Land of Nod
The Huffington Post: The most compelling personal memoirs — Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club, and others — are not happy stories. They are recollections of childhood adversity, and rarely are
