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Why A Good Scare Is Sometimes The Right Call
This week is our last with Maddie as a host, so we’re spending it with a trip down memory lane. The first episode Maddie invites us to relive and enjoy is our first listener question
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Stage Fright
The pressure. The expectations. The anxiety. If there’s one thing that connects the athletes gathering for the Olympic games with the rest of us, it’s the stress that can come from performing in front of
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Commentary: Gavin Newsom’s wheel of vaccine fortune: When a game show is as good a metaphor as any
Our perceptions of risk, as many insurance adjusters and sports teams with comfortable leads know, could be better. Academics study this. For a 2013 Assn. for Psychological Science paper, 101 college students, in exchange for extra
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on feelings of culpability, outside assistance and overconfidence, language development, spatial and visual perception, childhood tv exposure and attention problems, responses to the smell of fear, and physical strength and anxiety.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on anxiety and preference for immediate rewards, the role of social processes in delusions, machine learning and suicide research, thought conditioning, dissemination of best practices by clinicians, emotion regulation flexibility, racial discrimination and metal health, and memory in PTSD.
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The Best Evidence for How to Overcome COVID Vaccine Fears
Operation Warp Speed has certainly lived up to its name. The arrival of the first coronavirus vaccines less than a year after the pandemic began blew away the previous development record of four years, which
