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Saliva as a Biospecimen: Then and Now in the Era of COVID-19
Salivary bioscience has become increasingly useful in a range of areas, including behavioral science.
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Back Page: Decades of Dolphins
Janet Mann, a professor of psychology and biology at Georgetown University, dives deep into the social lives of these clever marine mammals.
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What Our Post-Pandemic Behavior Might Look Like
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when it wasn’t widely understood that germs could pass from person to person.Before the late 1800s, habits likesharing cups with strangers and spitting in public even amidst
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Learning to Live With Fear
… Fear is often a lonely experience. Its intensity can isolate us and make us question ourselves—make us feel flawed, weak and foolish. But because of the pandemic, millions of people around the world are
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How the News Changes the Way We Think and Behave
Alison Holman was working on a fairly ordinary study of mental health across the United States. Then tragedy struck. On 15 April 2013, as hundreds of runners streaked past the finish line at the annual
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Where Psychologists Should Fear to Tread on Covid-19, They Don’t
ONSIDER THE FOLLOWING brain teaser: A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? A researcher devised the question 15 years ago as a
