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Psychology
Researchers watched for signs of withdrawal — but didn't find any.
"It is more human to laugh at life than to lament it."
Personal finance advice is often over-simplified and fails to consider economic research or people’s unique circumstances.
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Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
Warm relationships protect your mind and body from the slings and arrows of life.
Sniffing out a deal.
When we don't find ways to relieve chronic stress, personal burnout is the likely consequence.
Has the "age of psychopharmacology” shrunk society’s sense of responsibility for mental health?
It may be possible to give people the tools to withstand difficulty before it attaches to them.
Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.
Day trading has the potential to yield incredible profits, but without a time machine, you’re unlikely to achieve them.
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The best-laid plans of mice and everyone else.
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How do we deal with information overload and unlock creativity? Build a second brain.
There are four money personality types. Which are you?
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Find it easier to sort out your friends' problems than your own? This paradox is for you.
People engage in creative thinking every day, whether they realize it or not.
You don’t have to “feel the burn” to see improvements to your health and well-being.
When you can't enter flow, you can still lean on your internal rhythm.
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How to defeat debaters who deal in distractions, according to a two-time world debate champion.
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Is it better to be rational or optimistic? Steven Pinker explains.
The majority of children who stutter will spontaneously recover from it without intervention, but some 20% of people do not.
Boredom isn’t the enemy; it’s a catalyst for changing your relationship to work.
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Male inequality — the enormous cultural shift happening right under our nose.
It was originally recorded in the 1970s by cognitive psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.
Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study.
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Deep secrets don’t explode. They do something worse, explains Michael Slepian.
When we're stressed, our hormones and nervous system produce all sorts of odors.