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Should Students’ Efforts Be Rewarded With Good Grades?
… If effort isn’t rewarded, effort won’t be applied. Those who doubt that they can find the right answer won’t even try. The richness that comes from inviting students to do their best will be
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A New Way to Inspire People to Get a COVID Vaccine
Here we go again: respiratory virus season. For the first time this year, though, we have vaccines against our big three threats: flu, RSV and COVID. But vaccines in vials do not equal vaccinations in
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Up-and-Coming Voices: Informing Public Health Through Psychological Science
Previews of relevant research by students and early-career scientists.
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Dangling Millions of Dollars to Coax People to get Vaccinated isn’t the Worst Idea
At first, getting vaccinated against COVID-19 seemed like enough of a reward. You got the satisfaction of protecting your health and that of the people around you, plus the knowledge that soon you would be
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on attentional control and chronic pain, reward processing and externalizing psychopathology, women with generalized anxiety disorder, trajectories of distress after a disaster, ruminative inertia and depression.
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Living in Deprived Neighborhoods May Hinder Reward Anticipation, Moderating Mental Health
Reduced access to rewards may influence brain development, contributing to the increased prevalence of mental health disorders in children living in economically impoverished environments.