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Myth: Subliminal Messages Can Change Your Behavior
Discussion of this myth provides rich opportunities to integrate topics across research methods, memory, cognition, sensation and perception, and social psychology.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring the structure of daily emotion-regulation-strategy use, long-term memory of childhood violence, and prenatal risk for autism spectrum disorder.
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What Autopilot Training Can Teach Carmakers and Drivers
The automotive industry needs to educate drivers on how to use the automated features in their cars, researchers say, a lesson the airline industry learned in the 1970s.
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What Twins Can Tell Us About Who We Are
In December 1988, two sets of identical twins in Bogotá became test subjects in a study for which they had never volunteered. It was an experiment that could never be performed in a lab, and had never before been documented. And it became a testament to the eternal tug between nature and nurture in shaping who we are. This week, psychologist Nancy Segal tells the story of the Bogotá twins, which was a tragedy, a soap opera, and a science experiment, all rolled into one. And she explains why twin studies aren't just for twins. They can serve as a paradigm to understand age-old questions that affect us all: Is our fate written in our genes?
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What if we knew when people were lying?
In Season One of the TV show The Good Place, Chidi Anagonye, an ethics and moral philosophy professor, faces a dilemma when a colleague asks his opinion about a new pair of boots. Chidi clearly dislikes the boots, which are a garish shade of red and encrusted in crystals, but to spare his colleague’s feelings, he says that he loves them.
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Trigger Warnings Do Not Work, New Study Finds
Trigger warnings—those alerts provided to college students in advance of potentially disturbing material—have prompted an intense philosophical and ideological debate. But do they actually achieve their stated goal of reducing emotional distress when dealing with sensitive subjects? New research from New Zealand comes to a firm conclusion: They do not. "Trigger warnings are, at best, trivially helpful," writes a research team led by psychologist Mevagh Sanson of the University of Waikato.
