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Stress Changes How People Make Decisions
Trying to make a big decision while you’re also preparing for a scary presentation? You might want to hold off on that. Feeling stressed changes how people weigh risk and reward. A new article published
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Droitier vs gaucher : des décisions influencées
Yahoo: Si les scientifiques ont déjà élucidé de nombreuses différences dans le fonctionnement du cerveau chez les droitiers et les gauchers, ils sont encore loin d’avoir tout dévoilé. Une nouvelle étude publiée dans la revue
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Sleep, Social Cues, and Dissociative Disorders
There’s a good chance that most of your knowledge about dissociative identity disorder (DID) — formerly known as multiple personality disorder — comes from films like Sybil (1976) or The Three Faces of Eve (1957).
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Our rational thinking is affected by bodily quirks
Yahoo News India: We are actually kidding ourselves when we take pride in our rational thinking – who knows when it may be hijacked by quirks. One particularly powerful influence may be our own bodies
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Current Directions in Psychological Science Speaker Series
The Current Directions in Psychological Science Speaker Series, presented by Pearson and APS (Association for Psychological Science), provides current, cutting-edge research from respected researchers in the field in an accessible format for students and instructors
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Fragmented sleep, fragmented personality?
Los Angeles Times: Maybe Sybil just needed a good night’s sleep. Multiple personality disorder is a rare and extreme form of what psychiatrists call “dissociative disorder,” and it was popularized by the publication in the
