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Neuroticism Predicts Anxiety and Depression Disorders
The personality dimension of neuroticism — characterized by an individual’s tendency to experience negative emotions, especially in response to stress — has been shown to predict several forms of psychopathology, including substance abuse, mood disorders
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Memories of Spence
APS Past President Janet Taylor Spence, who died in March 2015 at the age of 91, loved the pursuit of psychological science and inspired all who worked with her. In a special symposium chaired by
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To Know Thyself, Turn to Science
No matter how well we think we know our own traits, behaviors, and beliefs, experiments show that friends may have insights about us that we lack ourselves, says APS William James Fellow Timothy D. Wilson.
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It turns out money can buy happiness, but only if you spend it the right way
Quartz: We’ve all heard the maxim that money can’t buy happiness. But remember how happy you were at dinner with friends last week, or watching Star Wars in the cinema, or buying all four of
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Money does buy happiness, but only if…
CNBC: In fact, it’s even more important than your overall income or how much you spend in total, according to a study published online Thursday in Psychological Science. In other words, what matters more than
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Study Busts Some Myths about Millennials
Science is revealing that the negative stereotypes about the generation born between 1980 and 2000 are inaccurate.
