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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: One for All: Social Power Increases Self-Anchoring of Traits, Attitudes, and Emotions Jennifer R. Overbeck and Vitaliya Droutman The authors of this study hypothesized that powerful people
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Evidence-based justice: Corrupted memory
Nature: In a career spanning four decades, Loftus, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, has done more than any other researcher to document the unreliability of memory in experimental settings. And she has
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10 Ways We Get Smarter As We Age
TIME: As we age, the brain‘s processing speed begins to slow, and memory may sometimes slip. But there are other ways that our mental powers grow as we get older. In the current issue of
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Falsifying memories
The Guardian: As a Ph.D. student, the young Elizabeth Loftus wasn’t captivated by calculus: “I used to sit in the back of the seminars, kind of bored, writing letters to my Uncle Joe, or hemming
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Clinical Psychological Science: Dorthe Berntsen and David C. Rubin The prevalent view of posttraumatic stress disorder suggests that people have trouble voluntarily recalling autobiographical memories of traumatic events but
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Intelligence Means Having More Than Just Raw Brainpower
Business Insider: These situational factors exert their influence in so many ways, but today, inspired by a recent research finding, I want to focus on one in particular: how a mastery of situation can actually