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The Impact of Racism on the Developing Brain
Racial disparity is associated with negative health and socioeconomic outcomes, from pre-cradle to grave. While research has looked at the neuroscience of trauma and adversity, work looking at the impact of racism on the developing brain is scant. This large study identifies differences in size of key brain areas between...
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Can Machine Learning Solve Psychology's Replication Problem?
New research develops a machine learning algorithm to predict whether a psychology study will replicate or not. This machine learning algorithm uses word choices in psychology papers, not other key information, to make predictions. The algorithm has low accuracy overall (68%) and is based on existing replications that don't cover...
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The Hedonic Treadmill of Professional Development
The pleasure of completing a piece of professional development never seems to last, so we often crave more training and seminars. It’s the "hedonic treadmill" that brings us back to where we started, satisfaction-wise. There are ways to get off the professional development treadmill. Start by appreciating what you...
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Insights on Insight Impairments
Anosognosia in right hemisphere stroke offers one of the models to understand insight impairment. The loss of a representation of the “body schema of the mind” may underlie a lack of insight into mental conditions. Assessment of “lack of insight” may benefit from a broader perspective of impairments...
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You Have It All. Now What?
The American Dream isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be, or at least so it seems for many Americans. Though education, job/business, financial stability, and wealth can provide the outward appearance of success, for many of us, something is still missing. This missing piece has fueled a...
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Why Do We Anthropomorphize Corporations?
Research suggests that people naturally attribute personality traits to inanimate entities, a process known as anthropomorphizing. People readily anthropomorphize corporations and tend to judge them along dimensions of warmth and competence. Perceptions of a company's warmth ultimately come down to its ability to demonstrate good intentions for the customer’s well-being....
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How Does Inexperience Hinder Dating?
When zero-gen daters are exposed to a novel romantic situation, they could freeze. . Any breach of the social script could lead to social exclusion. How to relate to people is a delicate dynamic that frustrates many zero-gen daters.. Mohammed is a pseudonym of a zero-gen dater through whom I...
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Can Asking Specific Questions Deepen Any Relationship?
Back in 2015, an essay went viral that described 36 questions used in a psychology experiment that brought people emotionally close (or to quote the article, made them “fall in love”). Even now, I still see articles come out that portray these specific questions—as they are used in new studies—as nearly magical keys to meaningful emotional connection.
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Embracing Thresholds of Life Changes
Consciously crossing thresholds of life changes can help us develop ourselves more fully. Helping clients face thresholds is a crucial aspect of our work. Reviewing how we've crossed thresholds in our own lives helps us develop skill with threshold work. A threshold is "the door sill, the point of entering,”...
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The Truth About Midlife
Midlife isn’t completely magical nor completely miserable. The truth is somewhere in the middle. There’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all experience of midlife. Midlife is a time for figuring out who you’ve been, who you are, and who you are becoming. Midlife can be messy—especially for...
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Aging Men Speak Out About Avoiding Irrelevance
Older men share their wisdom for how to age meaningfully. One common theme readers suggest is to mentor younger people. A second theme is to focus on relationships with other people as a way to develop meaning. I’ve written two posts recently about aging men and irrelevance. In the first,...
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