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Please, Don’t Be This Couple
Prevention: Couples retreats, group bike rides, dinner reservations for four? Yup, sounds like you’re in love—and so are a bunch of your friends. But when was the last time you booked a table with an
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science. Within-Cohort Age-Related Differences in Cognitive Functioning Timothy A. Salthouse People born within the same range of birth years are often categorized as belonging to the same birth
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Dans la vie active et en période de crise, évitons les “pseudo-amis” (In life and in times of crisis, avoid the “pseudo-friends”)
Le Monde: L’émergence des réseaux sociaux virtuels, tels Facebook, LinkedIn, Viadeo ou Twitter, a tendance à imposer l’idée que le nombre de ses amis, contacts, “followers”, est un gage de qualité personnelle. Un “sans amis”
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The Power of One: The Psychology of Charity
Mother Teresa famously said: “If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.” There are worse people to turn to for lessons in human charity, and
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When Patients Do Nothing: Illness and Inertia
The Huffington Post: One of the most daunting public health challenges is getting people to take care of themselves in the most basic ways. It’s not that people with cardiac risk don’t know about exercise
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Budgets and Biases: Summing Up American Values
The Huffington Post: Our lawmakers may have averted the fiscal cliff on the first of the year, but the threat of sequestration still looms over the nation. If the Congress and the White House cannot