Studies showing links between personality traits and life outcomes, such as marital stability and vocational achievements, provide a reasonably accurate map of the relationship between personality and various aspects of one's ...
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Data from more than 17,000 teenagers show little evidence of a relationship between screen time and well-being in adolescents. The study, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological ...
Apr 5, 2019
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Like old photographs, memories fade in quality over time—a surprising finding for a team of Boston College researchers who expected recollections would become less accurate, but found people also report declines in the ...
Apr 5, 2019
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You're in the middle of a conversation and suddenly turn away because you heard your name. Don't worry, you aren't rude.
Mar 13, 2019
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Given the limited capacity of our attention, we only process a small amount of the sights, sounds, and sensations that reach our senses at any given moment—what happens to the stimuli that reach our senses but don't enter ...
Feb 26, 2019
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The happiness we feel after a particular event or activity diminishes each time we experience that event, a phenomenon known as hedonic adaptation. But giving to others may be the exception to this rule, according to research ...
Dec 20, 2018
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Scientists using eye-tracking technology have found that what we look at helps guide our decisions when faced with two visible choices, such as snack food options.
Dec 19, 2018
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When it comes to self-assessment, new U of T research suggests that maybe we do have a pretty good handle on our own personalities after all.
Dec 14, 2018
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In the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, 16-year-old students in middle-track schools decide whether to stay in school to pursue an academic career or enroll in a vocational training program. A new study offers evidence ...
Dec 10, 2018
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Faces that are seen as competent are also perceived as more masculine, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
Dec 7, 2018
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