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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on hallucinatory experiences, personality and memory in older adults, belief updates across the political spectrum, culture and gender inequality and well-being, pain and pleasure, neural responses to partner’s evaluations, bedtime music, and interventions to improve their choices about sharing fake news.
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Pandemic-related trauma is real. We need resources to help people through emotional pain.
An 11-year-old patient of mine changed abruptly from an outgoing, confident boy to an anxious, fearful one after his father developed COVID-19. He now wakes in the middle of the night crying and follows his
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Grin and Bear It: A Smile or Grimace May Reduce Needle Injection Pain, UC Irvine Researcher Shows
UC Irvine has good news for the 50 million Americans who are afraid of needles. In a recently published paper, UC Irvine researchers found that simply smiling or grimacing can significantly reduce pain from needle
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on attentional control and chronic pain, reward processing and externalizing psychopathology, women with generalized anxiety disorder, trajectories of distress after a disaster, ruminative inertia and depression.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on reward effects on pain discrimination, delay of gratification, alcohol use, equity in college courses, spatial hearing in blind people, spatial navigation, effects of repetition on illusions of truth, and selective attention.
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New Content from Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on the effect of gustatory disgust on moral judgment, the improvement of practices for selecting variables, and the effects of studies’ originality and statistical significance on the peer-review process.
