General Psychology

Psychologists are experimenting with an admittedly rather materialistic approach to treating phobias: bribing people to confront their fears. In a recently published study, researchers in Germany investigated whether monetary incentives could overwrite ...
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Maybe you’ve heard this one: there’s a runaway trolley car headed toward a fork in the tracks. Standing on one set of tracks, oblivious to the trolley car careening out of control, ...
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There are many different reasons someone might choose to retire or not retire at a particular point in their life. Which means that there are also many different ways the decision to ...
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Some people seem to be unfailingly upbeat, no matter what life throws their way. Ever wonder what the outlook on life is that all these people have in common? One answer that’s ...
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Do you have a good awareness of what defines your personality and the personalities of others? Are you able to predict how different people will react in a given situation based on ...
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If I asked you to paint a picture that captured the emotion of happiness, dark blue probably isn’t the first color of paint you would reach for. In fact, I’d guess that ...
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Over the course of their teenage and young adult years, people tend to face all kinds of challenging and stressful situations. How teens and young adults cope with the problems and new ...
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Bad experiences at work don’t always stay in the workplace. They can follow you home when the workday is done. Maybe it’s no surprise, then, that a new study suggests the key ...
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You might expect that more attractive people would have an edge in life. And in general, you’d probably be right: an analysis by researchers at the London School of Economics has found, ...
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Where does your body end and the external world begin? Your brain is calibrated to always be thinking about that question. If it wasn’t, you would be constantly bumping into things, and ...
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