What does it mean to be a good thinker? Recent research suggests that acknowledging you can be wrong plays a vital role.
Social Sciences
Oct 25, 2023
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People's willingness to believe in climate change varies greatly, as does their willingness to engage in pro-environmental behavior, such as energy conservation. We tried to understand the psychological factors behind these ...
Social Sciences
May 17, 2023
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When spurring action against climate change, NGOs and governmental agencies frequently operate on the assumption that people are unmotivated to act because they view climate change as a problem that affects distant regions ...
Environment
Apr 21, 2023
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Children as young as five can display more positive associations with white children over Black children on measures of unconscious bias, and new research from York University finds this can be true even when taking into ...
Social Sciences
Feb 2, 2023
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Imagine you have years-worth of research and it is dismissed by a 15-word rejection letter from a journal editor. That has happened to us.
Social Sciences
Sep 14, 2022
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Social unrest due to systemic racism is causing early career scientists from underrepresented backgrounds to experience psychological distress, according to new results from a research survey conducted by University of Pittsburgh ...
Social Sciences
Sep 5, 2022
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Significant societal and political transitions, such as Brexit, can impact employee wellbeing—although not necessarily in the ways that might be expected. Researchers based at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), ...
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2022
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One of the consequences of the current coronavirus pandemic is that it has brought us face-to-face with our own mortality. Not only are we vulnerable to disease, but we can also share diseases with other animals.
Plants & Animals
Jan 6, 2021
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Positive education is a spin-off from positive psychology. Prominent psychologists such as Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi were instrumental in its creation, initially in 2000.
Social Sciences
Aug 2, 2018
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Does wearing makeup affect academic performance? The new study investigates the "Lipstick Effect" among college students.
Social Sciences
Jul 28, 2017
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