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The Importance of Psychological Research at NICHD
Many psychological scientists who have conducted research for some time have a home or favorite funding agency. Mine is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Although NICHD supports
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Neural Evidence for an Internal ‘Calorie Counter’
As you peruse the shelves in a supermarket, you may be thinking about each food’s taste and nutritional value, or you may be trying to decide what you’re in the mood for. A new neuroimaging
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The Psychology Behind Our Collective Ebola Freak-Out
Time: In Hazlehurst, Miss., parentspulled their children out of middle school last week after learning that the principal had recently visited southern Africa. At Syracuse University, a Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist who had planned to speak about
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Psychological Science Coming Soon to an MCAT Near You
Students applying to medical school in the US in the fall of 2016 will soon have to add psychological science to the topics they study in preparation for taking the Medical College Admissions Test, or
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What if Age Is Nothing but a Mind-Set?
The New York Times: One day in the fall of 1981, eight men in their 70s stepped out of a van in front of a converted monastery in New Hampshire. They shuffled forward, a few
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Are you okay? You smell like cytokines.
Nurses and hospice workers say they can smell the final approach of death. Not with sudden death, but with the slow march toward the grave, the body’s systems begin to shut down and metabolism changes
