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Blog / Battling Burnout: What is it and how can we overcome it?

October 27, 2022October 27, 2022 / Jillian Battista /

What is burnout and how can we deal with it? Learn how to equip yourself with the tools you need to battle burnout.

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Blog / Unlearning the Learning Styles Myth

October 19, 2021 / Manuel Galvan /

Belief in “learning styles” is widespread despite there being no compelling scientific evidence for the theory. Read more on the problems with learning styles, how widespread beliefs in learning styles are, and why these beliefs persists.

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Blog / COVID-19 and the Near Miss Effect

March 20, 2021March 22, 2021 / Samantha Abrams / 1

The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic just over a year ago, but many Americans are optimistic about the coming months. The United States has now purchased enough…

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Blog / Four Reasons Reading Should be Your Next Pandemic Pastime

February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 / Allison Smith /

Everyone has picked up some new hobbies during the pandemic, but what are the scientific benefits of reading a good book?

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Academia / Death by a Thousand Words

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020 / Rachel Cherney /

Graduate school is stressful enough without constant othering. What are microaggressions, how do we address them, and how do they affect those in academia, and the workplace in general?

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Blog / How (Not) to be (Mis)informed

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 / Samantha Abrams /

Misinformation is spreading faster than ever in the digital age. Research in psychology can help explain why conspiracy theories are so popular, and how we can stop them in their tracks.

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Blog / A Tale of Two Political Narratives About Racial Inequality

September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 / Manuel Galvan /

Conservatives and liberals offer differing views on the causes of racial inequality. What does the experimental evidence say?

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Academia / Rejecting the Roots of Racist Research

June 29, 2020July 22, 2020 / Manuel Galvan / 2

Science has long been complicit in the perpetuation of racism. Recently, psychologists confronted the fact that racist science is still being published.

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Blog / Novel Dichotomies

June 3, 2020June 8, 2020 / Rachel Hartman / 5

Why are there so many two-factor theories in psychology? In this post, I explore the effects of dichotomous thinking and novelty requirements in academia.

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Blog / Burst your bubble

March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 / Rachel Hartman /

Why do we get stuck in information bubbles? What psychological processes are involved? How can you burst your bubble?

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Blog / Most readers loved this blog post

September 30, 2019October 7, 2019 / Rachel Hartman /

Social proof is the idea that when we hear that a lot of people are doing something, we will be more likely to behave similarly. Its effects are widespread and diverse, and you can use it to your advantage.

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Blog / My Scientific Training Brought Me to My New Favorite Book Genre

March 4, 2019March 17, 2019 / Alexandria Mullins /

It was about this time last year that I found myself falling flat on the admirable New Year’s resolutions I had set. My daily yoga routine had evolved into a…

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Blog / Where Motivation Hides

February 7, 2019February 7, 2019 / Julia DiFiore /

Recently, I couldn’t find my keys. They weren’t where I usually keep them. Turns out, I was so distracted when I came home that I left them dangling in the…

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Blog / If everyone jumps off a bridge, would you too?

November 5, 2018November 9, 2018 / Kathy Do /

For better or for worse, some of our most vivid memories are the ones we made as a teenager. Memories of questionable fashion choices, high school cliques, and many faux…

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Blog / Fight Fire with…(Why it’s good you’re already finishing this title)

August 28, 2018October 10, 2018 / Kathryn Weatherford /

The elderly woman exhaled loudly as she pushed up from sitting at the kitchen table. She’d heard a knocking from the front porch and wondered if her son had forgotten…

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Blog / Opening Our Minds to “Outsiders”

February 22, 2017 / Kathy Do /

Who I am today is a reflection of all the sacrifices my immigrant parents made to achieve the American Dream. In the late 1970s, my parents fled the Communist takeover of…

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Blog / Is Your Impostor Syndrome Showing?

December 10, 2016December 10, 2016 / Erika Van Goethem /

I was sitting at my kitchen table with a scattered mess of textbooks and notes studying for my first graduate school final.  The white board was filled with incoherent scribbles…

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Blog / Grossed Out? It’s a Grave Matter in Moral Psychology

October 31, 2016October 31, 2016 / Zan Isgett /

Halloween is a time of year when we hanker for the horrific, ogle at the ugly, and revel in the rotten. And in this election year, we’re just as likely…

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