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A New Way to Inspire People to Get a COVID Vaccine
Here we go again: respiratory virus season. For the first time this year, though, we have vaccines against our big three threats: flu, RSV and COVID. But vaccines in vials do not equal vaccinations in
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Call for Papers For Special Issue of Ecological Psychology
The journal hopes to honor Reuben M. Baron’s legacy by presenting research and theory that is inspired by his remarkable contributions to social and ecological psychology, as well as related areas.
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Want to Believe In Yourself? ‘Mattering’ Is Key.
Gordon Flett came across the term “mattering” as a psychology graduate student. Sitting at his desk in 1987, poring over a textbook, “I immediately knew what mattering was,” he said. He remembered visiting his grandmother
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Don’t Let Love Take Over Your Life
If you have a romantic partner, maybe you’ve noticed that you two spend an awful lot of time together—and that you haven’t seen other people quite as much as you’d like. Or if you’re single (and many of
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Why We Think Working Hard Makes You a Good Person
Working hard shows others that we’re reliable. But work for work’s sake has taken over, leading to burnout and inefficiency. Social psychologist Azim Shariff analyzes the morality of work. …
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Brain Scans Reveal That Loneliness Changes the Way We View the World
Humans are meant to be around one another. It’s been that way for millennia. We needed each other to hunt, construct homes, procreate, care for our offspring and protect one another against the saber-toothed tigers
