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Is It Healthy to Use Food as a Reward?
Hi, Dan. I have final exams coming up, and I’m trying to get motivated by giving myself rewards for studying. But all the rewards I can think of involve sweets or fried foods, which will
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A Prescription for Change
New insights from learning and motivation science are challenging conventional views of addiction as a brain disease.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring: genetic associations anxiety, depression, and executive function; motivation and emotion regulation in depression; and sense of agency over thoughts in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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How to Crush Your Habits in the New Year With the Help of Science
It’s the shiniest time of year: that hopeful period when we imagine how remarkable — how fit and kind, how fiscally responsible — our future selves could be. And while you may think “new year
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Robinson and Berridge Receive Grawemeyer Award for Addiction Research
APS William James Fellow Terry Robinson and APS Fellow Kent Berridge have won the 2019 Grawemeyer Award For Psychology for their research on the role of neural sensitization in drug addiction.
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The Illusion of Multitasking Boosts Performance
A series of experiments suggests that merely believing that we’re multitasking may boost our performance by making us more engaged in the tasks at hand.