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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
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: On Race and Time Gordon B. Moskowitz, Irmak Olcaysoy Okten, and Cynthia M. Gooch People who show high external motivation to control prejudice (EMCP) feel threatened
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Rotten Reviews Redux
Thomas H. Carr Michigan State University Two truly great rejections come immediately to mind. The first was the reaction of the editor of a high-level journal to a response I made to two reviews, one
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Your job is literally ‘killing’ you
The Washington Post: People often like to groan about how their job is “killing” them. Tragically, for some groups of people in the U.S., that statement appears to be true. A new study by researchers at
