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Two-Faced Facebook: We Like It, but It Doesn’t Make Us Happy
TIME: The more we use Facebook, the worse we feel. That’s what social psychologists at the University of Michigan report after tracking how 82 young adults used their Facebook accounts over a two-week period. When
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When Power Goes To Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart
NPR: Even the smallest dose of power can change a person. You’ve probably seen it. Someone gets a promotion or a bit of fame and then, suddenly, they’re a little less friendly to the people
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Trading Places
Hide-and-seek: child’s play, or an important developmental tool that teaches children how to work together? British scientists Alex Gillespie and Beth Richardson think it might be both. Gillespie, at the University of Stirling, and Richardson
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When a Relationship Becomes a Game
The Atlantic: It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and Kamakshi Zeidler, a 34-year-old plastic surgeon in Los Gatos, California, is explaining how to fill up a “love tank.” “If you do little things for your partner… you
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Time to Put Humor Under the Microscope
The Huffington Post: According to Dennett, humor evolved as a way for the mind to incentivize the discovery of mistaken leaps to conclusion — or as he puts in his talk, it’s “A neural system
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Spoiler Alert: Spoilers May Not Be That Bad
NPR: When you check social media and you’re not caught up on your favorite TV show, say, you never know when you might encounter a spoiler. Somebody on Twitter, some blog says too much about