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Steering Through Curves: The Eyes Have It
When we encounter curves in the road when we’re driving, our ability to handle the wheel isn’t the fundamental key to navigating through the bend. Recent research provided key insights on the critical role that
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Mining the Minds of Multitaskers
We multitask all the time — organizing to-do lists while answering emails, at the same time we’re checking in with colleagues, for example. The emerging consensus from scientific research tells us that this multitasking is
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Peer Pressure Lasts Only Three Days, Study Says
TIME: Feeling pressure to go on a date with someone all your friends told you was so cute? Just wait three days and your true feelings might be revealed. It turns out the influence of
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When To Say Yes To The Messy Desk
Forbes: Albert Einstein famously quipped, “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” While the Nobel laureate was obviously advocating for the benefits
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How “tightness” vs “looseness” explains the U.S. political map
The Washington Post: We are forever in search of ways to better understand the cultural differences in our country that lead us to such divergent politics. A new paper by two psychology professors at the
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Personal Judgments Are Swayed by Group Opinion, but Only for 3 Days
We all want to feel like we’re free-thinking individuals, but there’s nothing like the power of social pressure to sway an opinion. New research suggests that people do change their own personal judgments so that they
