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The Case for Scheduling Everything
Before the pandemic emptied offices and turned dining tables into desks, getting a midday haircut or heading out for 5 p.m. therapy could involve a bit of clandestine choreography: clearing one’s schedule of meetings, finding
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on social contact and well-being and health, motives and cultural variations in behavior, placebos and movies, lifespan learning and workplace implications, prenatal hormones and gendered behavior, children’s reputation management, and social emotions.
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The Future of Work
Where and how work gets done—and who does it—may never be the same. Researchers explore the future of work in the wake of COVID-19.
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Up-and-Coming Voices: The Future of Work
Previews of research on work by early-career psychological scientists.
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Burnout: Modern Affliction or Human Condition?
Burnout is generally said to date to 1973; at least, that’s around when it got its name. By the nineteen-eighties, everyone was burned out. In 1990, when the Princeton scholar Robert Fagles published a new
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Is Burnout Depression by Another Name?
The feelings of work related exhaustion associated with “burnout” could be a form of depression.