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Healing the Wounds of the Future
Several years ago, the satirical newspaper The Onion ran an article about “Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder,” based on a “study” by the Department of Future Veterans Affairs. Victims of the disorder, according to the report, experience
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How All-Nighters Alter Your Memories
Live Science: People who don’t get enough sleep could be increasing their risk of developing false memories, a new study finds. In the study, when researchers compared the memory of people who’d had a good
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Perfect, It Turns Out, Is What Practice Doesn’t Make
The Huffington Post: We’ve long been eager to believe that mastery of a skill is primarily the result of how much effort one has put in. Extensive practice “is probably the most reasonable explanation we
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How Family Game Night Makes Kids Into Better Students
The Atlantic: There has been a lot of recent attention focused on the importance of executive function for successful learning. Many researchers and educators believe that this group of skills, which enable a child to formulate and pursue
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Aiming for an A? Study habits you should adopt and avoid
USA TODAY: What are your favorite ways of preparing for an upcoming exam? Do you highlight and reread portions of text or create word associations to remember difficult concepts? According to research published in the
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The Disturbing Link Between Sleep Deprivation And False Memories
The Huffington Post: Sleep deprivation is a serious safety issue and has been implicated in everything from oil spills to plane crashes to nuclear power plant explosions. It turns out that getting a healthy amount of
