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Vying for the Prize
Like it or not, competition is a fact of life, the driving force behind evolution, and an intrinsic part of the human experience. Any time two or more parties, whether they are individuals, sports teams
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Personality Pathology in DSM-5
Clinical psychologists are increasingly calling for the discipline to become more empirically guided and less dependent on traditional clinical theories and expertise. This movement toward a clinical science model has already achieved a number of
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Brandishing our inner talisman
Mexicans call it mal de ojo, and in Brazil it’s olho gordo. Turks call it the Eye of Medusa and ward it off with the ubiquitous talisman called nazar. American Jews use the Yiddish phrase
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Colorblind? Or blind to injustice?
In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to the cause of racial equality, ruling 7-1 in Plessy v. Ferguson that “separate but equal” was the law of the land. The lone dissenter
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Family, Culture Affect Whether Intelligence Leads to Education
Intelligence isn’t the only thing that predicts how much education people get; family, culture, and other factors are important, too. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
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Clean hands, but a foul mouth!
Lady Macbeth is history’s most famous washer, hands down. Plagued by guilt for plotting her king’s murder, she scrubs and scours her palms and knuckles to get rid of imagined blood stains. But all the