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Putting Yourself in Their Shoes May Make You Less Open to Their Beliefs
Trying to take someone else’s perspective may make you less open to their opposing views, according to findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. “As political polarization in America
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Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
“The Case for Implicit Associations: Teaching Students What Lurks Beneath Their Awareness” by Nathan DeWall and “Can Cognitive Flexibility be Learned?” by Cindi May and Gil Einstein.
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How Psychological Science is Benefiting the World: A Special Issue of Perspectives
Perspectives on Psychological Science highlights the many ways that psychology research is helping to cultivate a healthier, happier, and more sustainable world.
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The Brain’s Autopilot Mechanism Steers Consciousness
In 1909 five men converged on Clark University in Massachusetts to conquer the New World with an idea. At the head of this little troupe was psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Ten years earlier Freud had introduced
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring the neural underpinnings of perceiving familiar faces and extremeness aversion as a heuristic.
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Unrelated Events Are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together
Occurring within a brief window of time links two events in memory, such that calling forth memory of one helps retrieve memory for the other event.
