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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Maternal Buffering of Human Amygdala-Prefrontal Circuitry During Childhood but Not During Adolescence Dylan G. Gee, Laurel Gabard-Durnam, Eva H. Telzer, Kathryn L. Humphreys, Bonnie Goff, Mor Shapiro
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Troubled #hearts — in 140 Characters
The Huffington Post: I joined Twitter in 2008, and I’ve always been impressed by the diversity of this floating conversation. People will just as soon tweet about dinner as the sorry state of American politics
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Stepping Into the Mix
I was introduced to interdisciplinary research during my very first lab meeting in graduate school in 1991. Judith Rodin, my first advisor, was leading a MacArthur Foundation network on Health-Promoting and Health-Damaging Behaviors, including the
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Is your boss making you sick?
The Washington Post: Having a bad boss can make your work life a misery, but it can also make you sick, both physically and mentally, researchers say. “The evidence is clear that the leadership qualities
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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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Personality Traits Linked to Specific Diseases
Pacific Standard: How likely are you to suffer a stroke? How about a heart condition? Or arthritis? New research suggests the answer depends, in part, on your personality. “Personality traits are not merely predictors of general
