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How a Healthy Mind-Set Influences Longevity
… Maintaining a positive outlook on life, and about aging in particular, also appears to benefit people in their later years. A 2022 study found that women over 50 who scored highest on a measure
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How to Stop Being So Hard on Yourself
If a friend is struggling with a big challenge or feels defeated, it’s usually our first instinct to offer words of comfort and understanding. But often it’s not so easy to do this for ourselves.
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The Simple Trick to Change Other People’s Minds
“The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement,” claimed the philosopher Karl Popper. He was writing about the dangers of dogma in science – but his words could equally apply to anyone’s worldview. And if you
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The Outer Workings of Interacting Minds
In this guest column, three researchers present explorations into group dynamics that are key to understanding group cognition.
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For Whom the School Bells Toll: New Psychological Research for the New Academic Year
A collection of research published in the APS journals in 2022 and 2023 related to peer relationships, pandemic-related learning losses, the positive impacts of growth mindsets, and much more.
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Robert B. Cialdini and Jennifer L. Eberhardt on The 7 Principles of Influence
Jennifer L. Eberhardt and Robert B. Cialdini explore the power of influence and the importance of “shipping” psychological science to address real-world challenges.
