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What Is Life?

What Is Life?

The long ascent from matter to mind

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Thomas R. Verny M.d

Why We Fall for Scams

Why We Fall for Scams

Research on personality traits helps explain why some of us fall for scams.

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Lindsay Weisner Psy.d

Jimmy Sotos on Catching Up and Going Viral Overnight

Jimmy Sotos on Catching Up and Going Viral Overnight

Male body image, identity, and the hidden mental health cost of content creation

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Duygu Balan Lpcc

Why Your Life Is Positively Impacted by Black History Month

Why Your Life Is Positively Impacted by Black History Month

The important thing you don't know about February’s Annual Black History Month.

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Vernita Perkins

Executive Function Myths That Need to Go

Executive Function Myths That Need to Go

Your beliefs about time management may be doing more harm than good.

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Sarah Kesty

The Overhead-Free Strategy That Tripled Donations

The Overhead-Free Strategy That Tripled Donations

How charity: water cracked the code on donor psychology

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John V. Petrocelli

3 Ways to Be Nimble in a Rapidly Changing World

3 Ways to Be Nimble in a Rapidly Changing World

How flexible thinkers can thrive when systems aren't perfect.

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Alice Boyes Ph.d

What Tired and Fatigued Really Mean to the Chronically Ill

What Tired and Fatigued Really Mean to the Chronically Ill

A Personal Perspective: Being fatigued feels different for the chronically ill.

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Toni Bernhard J.d

Building Bridges, Not Walls: Psychology and Neighbor Love

Building Bridges, Not Walls: Psychology and Neighbor Love

Psychology and religion can help us in loving our culturally diverse neighbors.

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Paul Youngbin Kim Ph.d

Seeking a Therapist in France? The Rules Are Complicated

Seeking a Therapist in France? The Rules Are Complicated

For those seeking therapy in France, there are real protections, and real gaps.

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Hans Rocha Ijzerman Ph.d

When Love Gets Quiet

When Love Gets Quiet

Recognizing and reversing emotional drift.

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Eli weinstein lcsw

Braver New World: The AI Architecture of the Inevitable?

Braver New World: The AI Architecture of the Inevitable?

How AI may design our future and quietly reshape human agency and behavior.

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Darren J. Edwards Ph.d

How Kindness and Compassion Make Hard Goals Doable

How Kindness and Compassion Make Hard Goals Doable

How to keep showing up for your goals without relying on willpower or shame.

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Diana Hill

From AI to BFF: Could AI Replace Humans as Friends?

From AI to BFF: Could AI Replace Humans as Friends?

How AI companionship might be reshaping how we connect with others.

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Tamara sobel j.d

Psychoethics: The Normative Study of Emotional Speech Acts

Psychoethics: The Normative Study of Emotional Speech Acts

How certain speech acts impair moral agency and how correcting them restores it.

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Elliot D. Cohen Ph.d

Why Time Increasingly Matters in Adolescence

Why Time Increasingly Matters in Adolescence

Between adolescents and parents, time becomes a growing source of contention.

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Carl E Pickhardt Ph.d

The Architecture of Identity: How the Brain Builds a Self

The Architecture of Identity: How the Brain Builds a Self

Why what we remember becomes who we are.

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Elizabeth mateer ph.d

Perfectionists Don't Ever Believe You're Trying Your Best

Perfectionists Don't Ever Believe You're Trying Your Best

Pleasing a perfectionist is impossible.

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Leon Garber Lmhc

Why Trying Too Hard Keeps You Stuck: The Art of Letting Go

Why Trying Too Hard Keeps You Stuck: The Art of Letting Go

The evidence is clear: Control is a fist. Peace is an open hand.

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Jordan Fiorillo Scotti Ph.d

Reimaging Psychology or Revitalizing the Humanities?

Reimaging Psychology or Revitalizing the Humanities?

How the psychological humanities can help us accomplish both.

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Matthew Clemente

Is Antisemitism Distinct From Other Prejudices?

Is Antisemitism Distinct From Other Prejudices?

The complexity of Jewish identity may worsen the animus against Jewish people.

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Ruth E. Stitt M.s

Can Any Good Come From Guilt?

Can Any Good Come From Guilt?

Guilt can help transform empathy into prosocial action.

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Krystine I. Batcho Ph.d

Who Doesn't Want to Join the Happiness Club?

Who Doesn't Want to Join the Happiness Club?

Personal Perspective: No meetings. No requirements. No dues. Just joy!

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Rita Lussier

How to Be Less Miserable, a Review

How to Be Less Miserable, a Review

A new book discusses the science of unhappiness and how we can suffer less.

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Christopher Lane Ph.d

The Importance of Media Psychology in Cybersecurity

The Importance of Media Psychology in Cybersecurity

Cyber threats are ominous, real, affect millions, and are increasing.

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Bernard J. Luskin

How Therapy Can Make Us More Interested in Others

How Therapy Can Make Us More Interested in Others

Personal Perspective: Therapy is not "navel-gazing."

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Nicholas Balaisis Ph.d

The Most Dangerous Books in Society

The Most Dangerous Books in Society

Research on the ineffectiveness of school book bans.

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Todd B. Kashdan Ph.d

What the Urge to Leave a Cofounder Is Actually Telling You

What the Urge to Leave a Cofounder Is Actually Telling You

The desire to walk away often indicates a deeper internal struggle.

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Matthew Jones Psy.d

I Told the Bot, Not My Therapist

I Told the Bot, Not My Therapist

Why some people turn to AI for emotional support.

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Group For The Advancement Of Psychiatry

The Affective Side of Certainty

The Affective Side of Certainty

Addressing the question of how affect and certainty are related.

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Adam Haynes-Lamotte Ph.d

The Dangers of Over-Identifying With Your Job

The Dangers of Over-Identifying With Your Job

A multidimensional identity is best for flourishing.

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Meredith Wells Lepley Ph.d

Signs of Love

Signs of Love

Personal Perspective: Your child is always with you because you carry them in your heart.

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Larry Carlat

The Science That Explains Why We All Love Alysa Liu

The Science That Explains Why We All Love Alysa Liu

What Alysa Liu's joy reflects back to us about our own unlived possibilities.

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Emma Seppälä Ph.d

You Want a Clinician Who Treats You as Person

You Want a Clinician Who Treats You as Person

You do not want a clinician who treats you as a diagnosis.

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Mitchell B. Liester M.d

Anatoly: An In-depth Look at His Heavyweight Humor

Anatoly: An In-depth Look at His Heavyweight Humor

Appreciating how one prolific prankster serves up laughter by the pound.

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John Charles Simon

Harnessing the Power of 'If'

Harnessing the Power of 'If'

How proactive coping can change your outlook.

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Mary McNaughton-Cassill Ph.d

Is a Few Minutes of Meditation Better Than More?

Is a Few Minutes of Meditation Better Than More?

If you’re a beginner, just a few minutes of meditation is enough.

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Diane N Solomon Ph.d

Raising Kids in a World That Rewards Anxiety

Raising Kids in a World That Rewards Anxiety

Why overthinking is becoming a developmental minefield for children and teens.

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Jeffrey Bernstein Ph.d

Some Good News for Sandwich-Generation Caregivers

Some Good News for Sandwich-Generation Caregivers

Caring across generations has hidden benefits.

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Georgia Witkin Ph.d

2 Ways to Stop Shutting Down During Conflicts

2 Ways to Stop Shutting Down During Conflicts

How to prevent your nervous system from collapsing under relational stress.

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Mark Travers Ph.d

The People Who Never Made It to the Room

The People Who Never Made It to the Room

Personal Perspective: On perspective-taking and the doors we forgot to open.

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Steven C. Hayes Ph.d

Our Natural Intelligence Nexus Is at Risk

Our Natural Intelligence Nexus Is at Risk

How AI could lead to an implosion of inspiration, intuition, and interrogation.

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Cornelia C. Walther Ph.d

The Personality You Develop Is the Personality You Seek

The Personality You Develop Is the Personality You Seek

A new twist on the classic nature-nurture debate in personality change.

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Susan Krauss Whitbourne Phd

A Global Glut in Cocaine Shocks the World

A Global Glut in Cocaine Shocks the World

Cocaine's back—and now it's the fastest-growing Illegal drug worldwide.

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Mark S. Gold M.d

What Plato Would Have Seen at the Olympics

What Plato Would Have Seen at the Olympics

Personal Perspective: Ancient self-governance played out on Olympic ice.

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Chester H. Sunde

Don’t Manifest More Pleasure. Do This Instead

Don’t Manifest More Pleasure. Do This Instead

Why visualising desire can backfire.

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Amy Campbell McLinpsych

Mental Health and Sickness Benefits: Lessons From History

Mental Health and Sickness Benefits: Lessons From History

History shows us we do not need to medicalise problems to support people.

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Joanna Moncrieff

Does Positive Body Image Alone Improve One’s Sex Life?

Does Positive Body Image Alone Improve One’s Sex Life?

How body positivity influences sexual confidence, communication, and intimacy.

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Sari Cooper

Holding the Boundary That Breaks Your Heart

Holding the Boundary That Breaks Your Heart

How couples decide to step back when extended family pushes too far.

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Mark B. Borg

How to Deal With Parental Guilt When It Shows Up

How to Deal With Parental Guilt When It Shows Up

The repair practice breaks the parental guilt cycle better than trying to be perfect.

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Jen Lumanlan M.s