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Compassion Can Be Cultivated
Pacific Standard: Can people be taught to act more altruistically? Newly published research, measuring both brain activity and behavior, suggests the answer just may be yes. “Our findings support the possibility that compassion and altruism Visit Page
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Brain Can Be Trained in Compassion, Study Shows
A study shows that training adults in compassion can result in greater altruistic behavior. Visit Page
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science. Deliberation’s Blindsight: How Cognitive Load Can Improve Judgments Janina A. Hoffmann, Bettina von Helversen, and Jörg Rieskamp When one is under a high cognitive load, why does Visit Page
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Desktop Diaries: Daniel Kahneman
NPR: Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman is the latest subject in our Desktop Diaries series, although he has no desk. Kahneman, professor emeritus at Princeton University, won the Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 2002 Visit Page
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Study: Men’s Biceps Predict Their Political Ideologies
The Atlantic: The pre-societal, animal model of conflict resolution is simple, brutal, and effective. Leaving aside political gambles, moral considerations, and the like, the strong are more willing to fight for their self-interest, while the Visit Page
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Political Motivations May Have Evolutionary Links to Physical Strength
Men’s upper-body strength predicts their political opinions on economic redistribution, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The principal investigators of the research — psychological scientists Visit Page
