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Who Am I? The Heroes of Our Minds
The Huffington Post: One of my guilty pleasures is the TV show Ice Road Truckers, which tells the stories of the heavy haulers who deliver vital supplies to remote Arctic territories of Alaska and Canada.
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In the Land of the Free, Interdependence Undermines Americans’ Motivation to Act
Public campaigns that call upon people to think and act interdependently may undermine motivation for many Americans, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Americans are
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Like Lance Armstrong, we are all liars, experts say
Los Angeles Times: Though we profess to hate it, lying is common, useful and pretty much universal. It is one of the most durable threads in our social fabric and an important bulwark of our
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Q&A: Willpower Expert Roy Baumeister on Staying in Control
TIME: It’s the third week of the new year, and many of us are realizing that those New Year’s resolutions are getting harder to keep. So TIME asked Roy Baumeister, professor of psychology at Florida
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Are parents happier? Dads may be, but not moms, singles
USA Today: Are parents happier than people without kids? The conventional wisdom would say kids bring parental joy, but in past research, childless people have reported greater well-being. Now, new research in the journal Psychological
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Darwin Was Wrong About Dating
The New York Times: A couple of evolutionary psychologists recently published a book about human sexual behavior in prehistory called “Sex at Dawn.” Upon hearing of the project, one colleague, dubious that a modern scholar