Psychology
486 articles-
Sugar Pill Nation
Even when we know they’re “fake,” placebos can tame our emotional distress.
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To Supercharge Learning, Look to Play
Play and art engage all of our senses and enhance attention.
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The Lasting Power of Good Memories
A positive spin on our past can help inure us against pain.
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Does More Money Make Us Happier?
One question for Matt Killingsworth, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania.
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The Creative Sweet Spot of Dreaming
A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.
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How Mental Time Travel Can Make Us Better People
Kindness lives in the future-present.
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This Drug Can Mend a Broken Heart
A new therapy promises to take the sting out of traumatic memories.
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Can Tripping Save the Planet?
The mysterious connection between psychedelic use and eco-activism.
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Why Do People Believe in Ghost Stories?
One question for Iris Berent, an Israeli-American cognitive psychologist at Northeastern University.
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Does Consuming Cannabis Boost Creativity?
One question for Christopher Barnes, a professor of organizational behavior at the University of Washington.
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Do Political Ads Influence Voting Behavior?
One question for Donald Green, a political scientist at Columbia University.
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What Makes Us Lucid Dream?
One question for Péter Simor, a psychologist at Eötvös Loránd University.
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I Didn’t Know My Mind Was So Strange Until I Started Listening to It
I took part in an experiment to decipher my inner thoughts.
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Should Social Psychologists Experiment with Psychedelics?
One question for Sonja Lyubomirsky, a psychologist at UC Riverside.
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Why Should We Delay Gratification?
One question for Yuko Munakata, a psychologist at the University of California, Davis and director of the Cognition in Context Lab.
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What Motivates Political Violence?
One question for Katarzyna Jaśko, a social psychologist at Jagiellonian University in Poland.
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How Does Caffeine Shape the Way We Spend Money?
One question for Dipayan Biswas, a professor of marketing at the University of South Florida.
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Don’t Give Up on Facts
People of all political stripes can spot misinformation. They just need a nudge.
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Are You a Naïve Realist?
Do you think you see the world objectively and others are biased?
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Why I Couldn’t Get Over My Brother’s Death
Everybody told me my grief would relent in a year. It only got worse. Was there something wrong with me?
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My Out-of-Body Experience
In a sensory deprivation tank, I lost my body and found myself.
