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After 2016, People Are Rethinking How They’ll Spend Election Night This Year
Ask me what I was doing on November 7, 2016, and I’d shrug. Another day lost to the march of my life. But November 8 remains vivid, a montage that has gotten far too many
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Back Page: Playing PAC-Man and Helping to Shape the Field
Michael Hout shapes the field of perception, action, and cognition at the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences.
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‘I’m Extremely Controversial’: the Psychologist Rethinking Human Emotion
In early March, as the world began to realise that coronavirus wasn’t going to go quietly, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett was thousands of miles away from home. “I went to New Zealand because I was getting
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The Science Behind WFH Dressing for Zoom
Mina Khan, an information-technology consultant who’s been working from home in Houston since March, tried wearing sweatpants and hoodies instead of the blouses and dress pants she typically wore to the office. It didn’t work.
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There Won’t Be a Clear End to the Pandemic
The pandemic has rendered many activities unsafe, but thankfully it can’t stop us from fantasizing about them. A common balm that people reach for is the sentence construction “When this is over, I’m going to
