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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: An Event-Based Account of Conformity Diana Kim and Bernhard Hommel Why do people conform to the behaviors and judgments of others? In two sessions, female participants rated
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Keep a One-Sentence Journal, Be Happier
New York Magazine: Ever since I can remember, my grandma has kept a daily journal. Not a “Dear Diary,” emotion-filled journal — just a couple of lines jotting down what she did that day and
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The hotly contested link between science denial and conspiracy theories
The Washington Post: In 2013, the University of Bristol psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky and colleagues published two papers containing a provocative claim: A tendency to endorse conspiracy theories, they suggested, makes people more likely to challenge various aspects of
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Unifying Psychology as a Physical Science
25 Throughout 2015, the Observer is commemorating the silver anniversary of APS’s flagship journal. Among the reports in the first issue of Psychological Science, released in January 1990, was an article titled “Mother Nature’s Bag
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What’s New at Psychological Science
On January 1, Associate Editors Robert Hartsuiker (University of Ghent, Belgium), APS Fellow Keith Holyoak (University of California, Los Angeles), and APS Fellow Valerie Reyna (Cornell University) left Psychological Science (PS) to become editors of
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Use Virtual Reality to Eliminate That Pain in Your Neck
Smithsonian Magazine: Tired of reaching for a bottle of pills to quell your chronic pain? Maybe you should strap on a virtual reality headset. In an experiment described last week in Psychological Science, scientists showed
