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Night-Owl Teens Might Be Angrier

Night-Owl Teens Might Be Angrier

Psychologists that research people’s "chronotypes," or their propensities to go to bed at different times, have found that early and late risers tend to differ in a variety of ways. In many ...
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Study Looks at Why Single People Are Single

Study Looks at Why Single People Are Single

But why are you single?? It’s an annoying question, but recently psychology researchers took it to a new level: they asked that question to 648 people and asked those people to rate ...
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The Advantages of Having Similar Friends

The Advantages of Having Similar Friends

Part of what defines a friendship is what that friendship is founded on. For people to be friends, something has to connect them, but the nature of that connection is different from ...
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Lockdown Might Be Changing People's Sleep Patterns

Lockdown Might Be Changing People’s Sleep Patterns

If you feel like social distancing is keeping you awake at night, you could be right. A new survey of 1,310 adults in Italy during the country’s total lockdown points to a ...
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Having Many Possible Activities Nearby Can Increase Boredom

Having Many Possible Activities Nearby Can Increase Boredom

Boredom is an emotion that can be as much about what you aren’t doing as what you are. We tend to think that the less we do, the more bored we get ...
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Study Shows Benefits of Dry January

Study Shows Benefits of Dry January

We’re only in May, but it’s never too late to start thinking about your New Year’s resolutions, right? After all, 2020 probably can’t be over soon enough! For those contemplating a January ...
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Personality Influences People's Environmentally Friendly Behaviors

Personality Influences People’s Environmentally Friendly Behaviors

With a constant stream of news about coronavirus, it’s easy to overlook the disconcerting news that continues to come out regularly about another global crisis: climate change. Most recently, a study was ...
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COVID-19 Might Be Changing People's Intentions of Becoming Parents

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 long-term plans, and that may include reevaluating their desire to have children. According to a new ...
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Reflecting on Life Lessons Can Help With Aging

Reflecting on Life Lessons Can Help With Aging

In a general sense, life looks the same for all of us: stuff happens to us. We learn from that stuff, sometimes. We get older. Ideally, we have a sense that there’s ...
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Economic Hardship Might Increase Tendency to Help Others

Economic Hardship Might Increase Tendency to Help Others

If there’s an upside to adversity, it might be greater empathy for others. That idea makes a certain intuitive sense to us, and there’s some evidence to support it. Take, for example, ...
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