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Brain Exercises Don’t Live Up to the Hype, Researchers Say
The Wall Street Journal: Computerized brain-training exercises and games, touted for their ability to improve overall cognitive function, may actually only help you get better at the specific game you’re playing. That’s the conclusion of
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Inside the Psychologist’s Studio with Jennifer Richeson
Yale University psychological scientist Jennifer Richeson will deliver the Bring the Family Address May 26 at the 30th APS Annual Convention. In a video interview, Richeson reflects on her remarkable career studying cultural diversity and intergroup interactions.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Clinical Psychological Science: Attentional Bias Dynamics and Posttraumatic Stress in Survivors of Violent Conflict and Atrocities: New Directions in Clinical Psychological Science of Refugee Mental Health Kim Yuval, Ariel
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‘Brain-training’ games help you play said games, not much else
Chicago Tribune: Spend enough time playing “brain-training” games, and you’ll get pretty good at games. But you won’t necessarily get better at anything else. That’s the conclusion of an extensive review published in the journal
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Brain Game Claims Fail A Big Scientific Test
NPR: Want to be smarter? More focused? Free of memory problems as you age? If so, don’t count on brain games to help you. That’s the conclusion of an exhaustive evaluation of the scientific literature
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Believing That Others Understand Helps Us Feel That We Do, Too
Our sense of what we know about something is increased when we learn that others around us understand it, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
