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How Symptoms Are Presented Online May Affect Whether We Think We Have The Disease

Psychological Science in the News - The Huffington Post
March 19, 2012
Cites: Psychological Science

Checking Off Symptoms Online Affects Our Perceptions of Risk

March 15, 2012
Press Releases

You’ve been feeling under the weather. You Google your symptoms. A half-hour later, you’re convinced it’s nothing serious—or afraid you have cancer. More than 60 percent of Americans get their

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Rising Stars

Vol.20, No.8 October, 2007

In case there was any doubt, the future of psychological science is in good hands. Here we present exemplars of today’s young psychological scientists; researchers who, although they may not

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Cultural Psychology: Studying More Than the ‘Exotic Other’

By Alana Conner Snibbe
Vol.16, No.12 December, 2003

In psychology departments across the country, a growing number of psychologists are doing something called “cultural psychology.” As they unpack their experiences and observations, unveil their theories and methods, and

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