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Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
Self-Serving Memories: When the Good Outweighs the Bad By Cindi May and Michael Scullin; Is There a Bright Side to Stress? By C. Nathan DeWall.
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on political attitudes, reliability of memory, and religious cognition.
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Expanding the Realm of Emotion and Memory
In an evolving career of multidisciplinary research, APS William James Fellow Elizabeth Phelps has never stopped listening to the data.
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Here, There, But Not Everywhere
APS William James Fellow Lynn Nadel explores how the hippocampus gives memories context.
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Fake News Feels Less Immoral to Share When We've Seen It Before
People who repeatedly encounter a fake news item may feel less and less unethical about sharing it on social media, even when they don’t believe the information, research indicates.
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Fake news grabs our attention, produces false memories and appeals to our emotions
“Fake news” is a relatively new term, yet it’s now seen as one of the greatest threats to democracy and free debate. In the Netflix documentary The Great Hack — which chronicled the rise and fall of