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Chicken Soup for the Lonely Soul: Why Comfort Food Works
Scientific American: My grandmother was born in Sobrance, in what was then called Czechoslovakia on November 5, 1930. She grew up in ten kilometers away, in a small town called Nagy-Muzsaly. Her father’s family were
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How to handle an angry boss
CBS News: New research from a team of Stanford researchers shows that the state of mind in which a person listens to an angry outburst has a big effect on whether or not they actually
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Holiday Haters Rejoice: Being a Grinch Might Be Good for You
TIME: We all know that Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks. It’s right there in the name, you can’t miss it. However, the holidays can also mean spending a lot of time with your
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Giving thanks helps your psychological outlook
USA Today: While it seems pretty obvious that gratitude is a positive emotion, psychologists for decades rarely delved into the science of giving thanks. But in the last several years they have, learning in many
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Why Does Music Move Us?
“There’s nothing in a sequence of notes themselves that creates the rich emotional associations we have with music,” says psychological scientist Daniel Levitin. So why does music trigger profound emotional experiences? When we listen to
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Think ‘It’s Not Me, It’s You,’ When Dealing With Angry Person
U.S. News & World Report: Telling yourself that an angry person is just having a bad day and that it’s not about you can help take the sting out of their ire, a new study
