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Forget Being Grumpy…We Get Happier With Age
Express UK: Far from turning into grumpy old men and women, people become happier and more positive with age. Mature brains, as they age and lose memories, choose to retain happy ones and see the
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Pupillometry Turns 50
When someone loves you or is lying to you, you might be able to see it in their eyes—or at least their pupils. “Pupillometry” — which uses pupil-diameter measurements for psychological research — recently turned
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Meta-Analysis Helps Psychologists Build Knowledge
When scientists want to know the answer to a question that’s been studied a great deal, they conduct something called a meta-analysis, pooling data from multiple studies to arrive at one combined answer. Some people
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The Perils of ‘Bite-Sized Science’
The Wall Street Journal: When I wrote, not long ago, about recent debates over possible flaws in the statistical methods used by academic psychologists* — or sloppy application of sound methods — I quoted one
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Bite-Size Science, False Positives, and Citation Amnesia
The Chronicle of Higher Education: There are good things about short psychology papers. They’re easier to edit and review, not to mention less time-consuming to write. A short paper on a CV looks just as
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Why Are Older People Happier?
Older people tend to be happier. But why? Some psychologists believe that cognitive processes are responsible—in particular, focusing on and remembering positive events and leaving behind negative ones; those processes, they think, help older people