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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on factors that predict faster spread of COVID-19, how optimism might decrease unethical behaviors during the pandemic, development of language perception, color-emotion associations, moral choice, decision making, and well-being and person-culture match.
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How To Calm Quarantine Frustrations While Remote Working
The types of news outlets, TV shows, movies, magazines, and newspapers we consume on a regular basis frame our perspective and impact our mental health and well-being. Long-standing research shows that chronic TV watchers and
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Being ‘Merely Tolerated’ May Put Minority Members at Risk
The implied disapproval that accompanies being tolerated may exact a toll on individual well-being.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on mind-set theory, desire to be moral, subjective well-being around the world and across life span, and gender-equality paradox in STEM, and a replication of social facilitation/inhibition effects with cockroaches.
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Games Can Be Good – When You Play for the Right Reasons
The effects of playing video games on well-being seem to depend largely on why and how an individual chooses to partake.
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How to write the perfect professional thank-you note
“Researchers have been making the case for 15 years that expressing gratitude can improve well-being, but we have yet to understand why in practice people don’t walk around in everyday life expressing thanks,” says Amit Kumar, a
