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The Roots of Stress
You probably don’t need statistics to appreciate the pervasive role of stress in American life, but the numbers are there if you do. A recent Stress in America survey found that a quarter of adults
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Memory Strategies Are Not Created Equal
Jacqueline J. Juett, Butler University, presented her research on “Memory Strategies Are Not Created Equal: Older and Younger Adults’ Strategy Beliefs” at the 2014 APS Annual Convention in San Francisco.
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Fears and Beliefs About Pain and Dentistry Predict Treatment-Seeking Behavior
Health behaviors are complex, and individual differences appear to be explained by variation in a host of psychosocial variables. With regard to oral health, treatment-seeking behavior and associated health outcomes are related to fear, anxiety
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Keeping Up With the Joneses
We examined the influence of friends’ and family members’ perfectionism on students’ life aspirations, as well as the role of life aspirations in students’ well-being and self-regulation across the year as they pursued three personal
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Overcoming ‘Us’ and ‘Them’
In a lively keynote address at the 2014 APS Annual Convention, APS Past President Mahzarin R. Banaji explains how our tendency to divide ourselves into groups operates beneath our awareness.
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Inside the Psychologist’s Studio: Eleanor Maccoby
Some of the first women to enter the field of psychological research sought to examine differences between the sexes, even as they suffered from gender discrimination themselves, APS William James Fellow Eleanor Maccoby recently said