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How Meditation Could Change the Brain
n a time when traumatic events such as pandemics, shootings and loss seem never-ending, mindfulness can be a tool for feeling capable during periods of uncertainty. “Mindfulness is a collection of practices nowadays, aimed to
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U.S. Kids Are Falling Behind Global Competition, but Brain Science Shows How to Catch Up
On vital measures that predict later success in school and life, small children in the U.S. do worse than kids in comparable countries. This distressing information comes from an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study of
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Ford Fellow to Explore Collaborative Research in “Extreme Ideological Hate”
Jeni Kubota, an associate professor at the University of Delaware, focuses on implicit racial bias and basic social cognitive processes as drivers of injustice.
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on brain and learning, handedness in primates, cognitive modeling and large-scale digital data, language, blame, credibility in psychological science, musical synchrony, innovations in clinical science and assessment.
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American Academy of Arts & Sciences Elects Eight APS Fellows
The latest class includes APS Fellows whose research covers broad aspects of human behavior.
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M.R.I.s Are Finding Connections Between Our Brain Activity and Psychology
In March, neuroscientists and psychiatrists from the School of Medicine at Washington University, St. Louis, along with colleagues elsewhere, published a study in the journal Nature that sparked widespread discussion in their fields. Researchers, the study noted
