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The Key to Escaping the Couple-Envy Trap
As a couples therapist, I often hear clients compare their romantic relationship with those of their friends or co-workers. Some do it to express satisfaction with their own partner. But more often, they wonder if they’d be happier with someone more attractive, more sensitive, funnier, smarter, or richer than the person they’re committed to. Embedded in their ponderings are a host of other questions: Am I missing out? Is my romantic life all that it could be? Am I? To compare is human. But this idealization of other couples elides how periods of boredom, burden, or dissatisfaction in a partnership are more expectable than worrisome.
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U.S. 2022 Budget Passes, Containing Important Provisions for Psychological Science
U.S. President Biden signed into law an omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 2022 (FY22), funding the government through September.
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How to Think About the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis, in Maps and Charts
In the weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, almost three million of the country’s 44 million residents have left the country. The rate of the Ukrainian exodus is unprecedented in recent history. Europe’s response to the crisis has been similarly remarkable — both in its immediate generosity as well as in contrast to how poorly many European countries have treated refugees from Africa and the Middle East. ... The Syrian refugee crisis shows how quickly public sympathy can wane. In 2015, newspapers published a photo of Alan Kurdi, a 2-year-old Syrian boy who drowned while his family was trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to escape the country’s civil war.
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COVID Changed the World of Work Forever
Hardly anyone has made it through the pandemic with their work life unchanged. Millions of people have lost jobs, been placed on furlough or switched to working from home. Essential workers have continued in place but often with major changes to their workloads, including additional safety procedures and an awareness of infectious disease as a new workplace hazard. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment dropped by 20.5 million people in the U.S. alone in April 2020. Service providers were hit most intensely: 7.7 million jobs were lost in the leisure and hospitality sector, with 5.5 million of them in food service or drinking establishments.
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Counting Ability May Emerge From the “Cognitive Technology” of Number Words
Humans’ ability to count may be limited by our knowledge of number words, according to a study of an isolated indigenous group in the Bolivian Amazon.
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Science Community Urges Action to Support Ukrainian Scientists
The letter identifies actions the government can take to better assist the thousands of students, researchers, and their families fleeing the country.
