'Gaslighting' is Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2022
"Gaslighting"—behavior that's mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful—is Merriam-Webster's word of the year.
"Gaslighting"—behavior that's mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful—is Merriam-Webster's word of the year.
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Nov 28, 2022
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Racially resentful white Americans are less likely to support some gun rights if they believe Black people are exercising those rights more than white people, according to research published by the American Psychological ...
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2022
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Whether it's holding back from telling a risqué joke, suppressing a comment that could be unintentionally rude or insensitive, or avoiding controversial topics altogether, self-censoring speech and conduct at work comes ...
Social Sciences
Aug 5, 2022
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For decades, studies have shown that children able to resist temptation—opting to wait for two marshmallows later rather than take one now—tend to do better on measures of health and success later in life.
Social Sciences
Jul 24, 2022
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Desire is part of human nature, and being vulnerable to desire is part of what differentiates humans from machines. However, a new international study has found that individuals who are better able to resist their desires ...
Social Sciences
Jul 7, 2022
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If you're trying to scale back on impulse purchases, then you may want to hold off on drinking that coffee. An international study led by the University of South Florida (USF) found that caffeine impacts what you buy and ...
Economics & Business
Jun 17, 2022
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Researchers from Germany, the US, and the UK teamed up to understand the role of flexibility and inhibition in problem solving and how they relate to each other in a behaviorally flexible urban bird species, the great-tailed ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 15, 2022
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For a long while, it was assumed that only humans have personalities or can exercise self-control. Now, biologists are beginning to discover that birds and other wild animals share these traits with humans.
Plants & Animals
Nov 17, 2021
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Joining a club that sparks a new interest, playing a new intramural sport or finding a new group of friends may be just as indicative of a college freshman's loss of self-control as drinking or drug use, according to new ...
Education
Jun 10, 2021
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When high school freshmen's teachers give them lower scores on communication skills, the students receive four times as many disciplinary referrals as some of their peers, a new study found.
Education
Jun 9, 2020
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