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SPECIAL FOCUS: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POLITICS

Attitudes to Inequality May Have Genetic Underpinning

It’s clear that we live in an unequal society, with some groups of people having more ...
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Biopsychology, Politics, ,

What’s the Role of Politics in Therapy?

Therapy is a place where anything can come up. The old adage about discussing politics and ...
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Clinical Psychology, Politics, Treatment

People Probably Agree With You Less Than You Think

If there’s one thing people never lack, it’s biases in how we think. One of these ...
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Cognitive Psychology, Politics, Relationships,

People Care More About Climate Change After Experiencing a Hurricane

Climate change is an interesting psychological case study. It’s a big, scientifically unambiguous problem, but we’re ...
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Behavioral Psychology, Climate Change, Politics, Stress & Trauma

NEED A LITTLE HAPPINESS AND JOY?

We Need to Learn More About People Who Flourish After Depression

We know a decent amount about people with depression. At this point, quite a few studies ...
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Clinical Psychology, Depression, Flourishing, Positive Psychology

A Happiness Intervention for Teachers

Teaching is a stressful job. From managing a classroom, to taking work home at night, to ...
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Children, Gratitude, Happiness, Positive Psychology, Teaching, Treatment

A Daily Gratitude Exercise

Psychologists increasingly believe gratitude to be a powerful emotion that can boost happiness and wellbeing. Gratitude ...
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Gratitude, Positive Psychology, Treatment

Not Judging Your Own Thoughts as an Element of Happiness

There’s no formula for happiness, but something that apparently helps is not being too judgmental toward ...
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Cognitive Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Happiness, Positive Psychology

COVID AND ITS LONG TERM IMPACT

How to Stop Touching Your Face

Do you find your hand regularly creeping up toward your head, despite recent advice from public ...
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Behavioral Psychology, COVID, Health Psychology

Resources and Studies on the Psychological Impact of Coronavirus

It seems like one can’t check the headlines these days without some disconcerting bit of news ...
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Clinical Psychology, COVID, Health Psychology, Stress & Trauma

COVID-19 Might Be Changing People’s Intentions of Becoming Parents

The new way of life brought about by the current pandemic has many people rethinking their ...
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Behavioral Psychology, COVID, Health Psychology, Parenting,

Study Shows Uptick in Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms During Lockdown

In March, as public health officials around the world were dialing up measures against COVID-19’s spread, ...
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Anxiety, Clinical Psychology, COVID, Health Psychology

SOCIAL MEDIA: GOOD OR EVIL?

Envy Might Drive Some of Social Media’s Mental Health Effects

Social media has facilitated both new ways of connecting with others and new ways of tallying ...
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Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Envy, Relationships, ,

The Tweets That Go With a Quarter-Life Crisis

From getting married to buying homes, millennials are accused of doing everything later. But that’s not ...
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Anxiety, Developmental Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, , , Teens, Tweets, Young Adults

Switching Off Your Phone Half an Hour Before Bed Might Improve Sleep, Memory

I’m not going to bother telling you not to use your phone before bed. Partly because ...
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Cognitive Psychology, Health Psychology, Media Psychology & Technology, Memory, Sleep, ,

Two Ways to Use Social Media

In my last post, I talked about how children in neighborhoods with faster internet apparently evaluate ...
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Clinical Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, ,

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