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We’ve Misunderstood Human Nature for 100 Years
One day in the summer of 1924, an anthropologist named Raymond Dart made an incredible discovery — and drew a conclusion from it about human nature that would mislead us for a century. Dart was
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on human chemical communication, the resilience of collectives, suspicion about suspicion probes, information avoidance, and much more.
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Is Mental Time Travel Good for Us?
In our fast-paced modern lives, we are increasingly encouraged to stop and focus on the present. And there are tangible advantages. Studies on the effects of mindfulness and meditation — practices that gear people’s cognitive capacities
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Why Do We Have Eyebrows and Other Types of Facial Hair?
We humans seem to have an on-again, off-again relationship with facial hair. Prehistoric cave drawings reveal the myriad tools our ancient ancestors used to shave: shark’s teeth, sharpened flints and even clam shells. Nowadays, beards are
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on effort, the origins of disease, control and attention, the predictive mind, digital parenting, psychopathology models, spatial representations, and more.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on psychologists with lived experience of psychopathology, resilience to stressors, the evolutionary value of warmth, and biases and validity in graduate-school admissions.