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Back Page: Redefining ‘Academic Superstardom’
Tilburg University methodology expert Angélique Cramer believes academia, much like a soccer team, should celebrate its stalwart defenders as much as its superstar strikers.
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‘Be Bold:’ Dacher Keltner highlights the importance of emotion and what it takes to be a leading psychologist.
The Beatles once said, “All you need is love,” but it doesn’t take long living a day in the life of a UC Berkeley student to realize that feelings are a lot more complicated than
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Emotions in Context: What We Know About How We Feel
Data from around the world show few differences in people’s day-to-day emotional experiences, but distinct cultural differences in the feelings they find most desirable, APS Fellow Jeanne Tsai has found. Tsai is among psychological scientists across the globe who are charting the depths of emotion research.
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Facebook Conceded It Might Make You Feel Bad. Here’s How to Interpret That.
Facebook published a quietly groundbreaking admission on Friday. Social media, the company said in a blog post, can often make you feel good — but sometimes it can also make you feel bad. Yes, I
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Podcasting a Wide Net
With help from the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science, Lisa Cantrell’s podcast on psychological research has grown its audience to nearly 20,000 listeners over the last 2 years.
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‘I Feel Your Pain’: The Neuroscience of Empathy
Observing someone else in anguish can evoke a deep sense of distress and sadness — almost as if it’s happening to us. APS Fellow Ying-yi Hong and other scientists identify some of the regions of the brain responsible for this sense of interconnectedness.
