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Advil vs. Tylenol: Which to use and when
Fox News: When a headache, back pain or other complaint strikes, many people believe Advil, Tylenol and other over-the-counter analgesics are pretty much interchangeable. Far from it. These medications are each at their best when
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How Self-Promotion Can Backfire
TIME: There are social consequences to tooting your own horn too often. Tuesday in social faux pas news comes a paper showing that when we try to make people like us, we often come across as
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Social Media and PTSD, Preventing Procrastination
BBC: Claudia Hammond investigates Body dysmorphic disorder and asks if social media can really cause Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She also talks to the psychologist who explains why describing events in terms of the number
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Folk Explanations of Behavior: A Specialized Use of a Domain-General Mechanism Robert P. Spunt and Ralph Adolphs Do people use similar or different cognitive processes when making
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Hiding Your True Colors May Make You Feel Morally Tainted
The advice, whether from Shakespeare or a modern self-help guru, is common: Be true to yourself. New research suggests that this drive for authenticity — living in accordance with our sense of self, emotions, and
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Getting Hands-On Deepens Science Learning
Students who use hands-on approaches to test or demonstrate scientific concepts understand the concepts more deeply and score better on science tests.