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How Do We Make Moral Judgments? – Insights From Psychological Science
New research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, provides intriguing insights into some of the factors that influence how we make moral judgments. Reappraising Our Emotions Allows Cooler Heads
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New Rx for Spider Fears? Shout It Out
LiveScience: Feeling frightened? Say so. A new study finds that speaking your emotions out loud can help you confront your fears. People who fear spiders are less distressed upon approaching a large, hairy tarantula when
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Quand les mots effacent les peurs (When words fade fears)
Le Figaro: La parole apaise la colère», disait Eschyle. Elle pourrait également apaiser les craintes, d’après une étude américaine parue dans la revue Pyschological Science : des phobiques des araignées ont en effet réussi à
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Can watching the news can make you sick?
Yahoo: Watching the evening news can be a harrowing experience. Sometimes it seems like the world is rife with disaster, war, violence and nothing else, and the advent of 24-hour news networks means we can
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The secret of beating fear? Just talk about your emotions, say researchers
The Daily Mail: Simply describing your feelings at stressful times can make you less anxious, researchers have claimed. UCLA research into people who were terrified of spiders found that by simply talking about their fear
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Too Soon? Study Reveals ‘Sweet Spot’ in Joking About Tragedy
LiveScience: When is it okay to joke about a tragedy? New research shows that a comedian must carefully balance how bad and how distant an unfortunate event is to make a joke about it that
