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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on social contact and well-being and health, motives and cultural variations in behavior, placebos and movies, lifespan learning and workplace implications, prenatal hormones and gendered behavior, children’s reputation management, and social emotions.
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The Happy Patriot, the Unhappy Nationalist
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection,” Thomas Paine wrote in his pamphlet series The American Crisis. It was December 1776, shortly after the onset of
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on hallucinatory experiences, personality and memory in older adults, belief updates across the political spectrum, culture and gender inequality and well-being, pain and pleasure, neural responses to partner’s evaluations, bedtime music, and interventions to improve their choices about sharing fake news.
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The Psychological Benefits of Commuting to Work
Back when commuting was a requirement for going to work, I once passed through a subway tunnel so filthy and crowded that the poem inscribed on its ceiling seemed like a cruel joke. “overslept, / so tired. / if late, / get
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on gender nonconformity, unpublished studies, race in psychological science, self-correction in science, reproducibility and transparency, environmental variants, cognitive ability, group identities, and well-being public policy.
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At 100 Years Old, Edmund Gordon Thinks the Key to Schooling Starts at Home
Edmund W. Gordon has been thinking about child well-being for a long time. A respected scholar, a founding father of the Head Start preschool program and expert on educational testing, Gordon has been called the premier Black
