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Op-Ed: How to Help Others During a Pandemic When They’re Too Embarrassed to Ask
APS Member/Author: George Loewenstein As the coronavirus tightens its grip on this country, your retired neighbor, an exhausted healthcare worker, or a friend recently laid off from work probably needs help now more than ever.
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The Fear of Coronavirus is Changing Our Psychology
Rarely has the threat of disease occupied so much of our thinking. For weeks, almost every newspaper has stories about the coronavirus pandemic on its front page; radio and TV programmes have back-to-back coverage on
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‘A New Greatest Generation’: How Our Natural Resilience May Surprise Us
Anxiety, fear, and anguish are coursing through the world as we witness mounting numbers of sick people and deaths, frontline caregivers fighting for their patients’ lives with inadequate resources, and an unprecedented economic crisis that’s
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Quarantine Survival Tips for Extroverts and Perfectionists — And Those Who Live With Them
Many of the memes that started after the country began social distancing involved distraught extroverts and contented introverts. Consider the Instagram image of actress Zoë Kravitz eating and drinking in the bathtub with a caption
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The Perks of Being a Weirdo
My childhood was, by most definitions, pretty strange. I grew up a Russian Jewish immigrant in Midland, Texas, in a region whose biggest claims to fame are being the onetime home of George W. Bush
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Use Social Isolation As A Time To Create Good Habits
Most of us don’t consciously recognize when we are creating a habit. Habits are automatic ways of doing, seeing and acting. It’s a subconscious routine. Psychologist Wendy Wood, author of Good Habits, Bad Habits: The