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Loneliness May Warp Our Genes, And Our Immune Systems
NPR: Loneliness has been linked to everything from heart disease to Alzheimer’s disease. Depression is common among the lonely. Cancers tear through their bodies more rapidly, and viruses hit them harder and more frequently. In
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What really drives you crazy about waiting in line (it actually isn’t the wait at all)
The Washington Post: If the people who study the psychology of waiting in line — yes, there is such a thing — have an origin story, it’s this: It was the 1950s, and a high-rise office building in Manhattan had
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: A Thousand Words Are Worth a Picture: Snapshots of Printed-Word Processing in an Event-Related Potential Megastudy Stéphane Dufau, Jonathan Grainger, Katherine J. Midgley, and Phillip J. Holcomb
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Eyeing college stress, sleep patterns
The Boston Globe: MIT professor Rosalind Picard is worried about campus stress. After a handful of suicides in recent years, Picard started thinking about how her own work might be able to help change MIT’s
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Taking the (Often Imprecise) Measure of Stress
The New York Times: Research has long shown that stress is bad for you, but many people are not even aware when they are feeling stressed. Now, a number of new devices are sold as
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Fatal Fat Shaming? How Weight Discrimination May Lead To Premature Death
Wbur: As soon as the chair broke under the weight of his 533 pounds, Jeff Newell knew he wouldn’t get the job. With a background in customer service and a culinary arts degree, Newell, of