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More Career Options May Explain Why Fewer Women Pursue Jobs in Science and Math

Women may be less likely to pursue careers in science and math because they have more career choices, not because they have less ability, according to a new study.


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Wide-Eyed Fear Expressions May Help Us – and Others – to Locate Threats

Wide-eyed expressions that typically signal fear may enlarge our visual field and mutually enhance others’ ability to locate threats, according to new research published in Psychological Science.

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Encountering Connections May Make Life Feel More Meaningful

Experiencing connections, regularities, and coherence in their environment may lead people to feel a greater sense of meaning in life, according to a new study published in Psychological Science.

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Extreme Political Attitudes May Stem From an Illusion of Understanding

Having to explain how a political policy works leads people to express less extreme attitudes toward the policy, according to new research published in Psychological Science.

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New Research From Psychological Science

A sample of new research exploring attentional capture; visual short-term memory and visual aftereffects; life-history strategies and diversification; and the role of self-views in treatment for social anxiety disorder.

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Infants’ Sweat Response Predicts Aggressive Behavior as Toddlers

Infants who sweat less in response to scary situations at age 1 show more physical and verbal aggression at age 3, according to new research published in Psychological Science.

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Blogs By Wray Herbert

wray-herbert_headshotWray Herbert has been writing about psychology and behavioral science for many years. He has been a staff writer and editor for Science News, Psychology Today, US News & World Report, and Newsweek. He is currently a contributor to Huffington Post and Scientific American Mind. His work has also appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Washington Post, and many other national publications.

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A Cognitive Earthquake: Who’s Really In Need?

In January 2000, an earthquake shook China’s mountainous Yunnan province. It was a moderate earthquake and killed only seven, but it leveled more than 40,000 homes and injured thousands of ... More>

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A Salvo in the Soda Wars

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s controversial ban on large, sugary drinks was slated to go into effect today, but a state judge struck it down at the last minute. ... More>


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