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Society’s Role in Covid’s Spread
Fareed gives his take on how varying degrees of tolerance for rules have influenced national responses to the pandemic across the world. …
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You Won’t Remember the Pandemic the Way You Think You Will
… The pandemic has not been a single, traumatic “flashbulb” event like the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the fiery disintegration of the space shuttle Challenger, or 9/11. Instead, it’s a life period in which
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Are We Heading for a Post-Pandemic ‘Roaring 2020s,’ With Parties and Excess?
This has been a year of extreme social deprivation. But the pandemic — like all pandemics before it — eventually will end. Then what? Will we easily transition from isolation back into the real world?
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Ew, Gross! Why Humans Are Hardwired To Feel Disgust.
In the late 1860s, Charles Darwin proposed that being grossed out could have an evolutionary purpose. Disgust, he wrote, was inborn and involuntary, and it evolved to prevent our ancestors from eating spoiled food that might kill
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World Happiness Report is Out, With a Surprising Picture of Global Resilience
In a conclusion that even surprised its editors, the 2021 World Happiness Report found that, amid global hardship, self-reported life satisfaction across 95 countries on average remained steady in 2020 from the previous year. The United States
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, psychopathology and fecundity, the general factor of psychopathology, task learning in schizophrenia, life positive events and depression, predictions of hospitalization outcomes, and adolescents’ stress reactions to COVID-19.
