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Combating an Epidemic of Loneliness
Humans can survive three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food and — according to survival lore — three months without companionship. Whether true or not, what’s clear is that people
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Your Brain Doesn’t Work the Way You Think It Does
At the very beginning of her new book Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett writes that each chapter will present “a few compelling scientific nuggets about your brain
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Your Brain Is Not for Thinking
APS Past-President/ Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett Five hundred million years ago, a tiny sea creature changed the course of history: It became the first predator. It somehow sensed the presence of another creature nearby, propelled
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on the role of situation in psychological science, neuroscience and moral behavior, learning to write, stress, and the role of emotions on attention and work performance.
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The Brain from Inside Out: 2020 Kavli Keynote Address Shines Light on Cognition
New York University’s György Buzsáki proposes that our newborn brains are filled with largely random patterns, which he refers to as an “inside-out” framework.
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Neuroscience Could Be the Key to Getting People to Wear Masks
OPINIONS ABOUT WEARING masks and maintaining social distancing are sharply divided, largely along red and blue lines. Conservatives Republicans are the least likely to wear a mask, according to poll data from Pew Research. Some neuroscientists believe that lessons
