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Testing Can Help Students After All
The Wall Street Journal: In recent years, testing has gained new importance in public schools, much to the chagrin of its critics. But several recent scholarly articles bolster the case that testing can help students
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Preferences influence choices we make
Asian News International: We come to place more value on the options we chose and less value on the ones we rejected be it choosing between presidential candidates or household objects, researcher say. One way
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Being selfish really does make us happy (as long as we can avoid feeling guilty)
The Daily Mail: Being selfish really does make us happier, researchers have found – so long as we can avoid feeling guilty. Although we are taught the benefits of kindness and altruism, it seems we
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Nature, nurture both affect kids’ self-control
Futurity: Being able to delay gratification—often considered a predictor of a child’s future success—is as much a question of environment as innate ability, a new study shows. For the past four decades, the “marshmallow test”
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Please, make me be selfish
CNN: People are inherently selfish. Research shows we’re happier and our lives improve when we focus on ourselves. Makes sense, right? So why does research also show that we often put others first and fail
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Worriers who feel guilty before doing anything wrong make best partners, research finds
The Telegraph: A new study found that worriers who begin to chastise themselves at the mere thought of doing something wrong are less likely to behave immorally as a result of their unwavable conscience. In
