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Quarks, Quasars and the Mind - Stranger Than We Suppose
Source: Steve Stankevicius[The following is a modified transcript of a presentation I gave at the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatry Annual Congress held in Adelaide, May 2017. I...
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The Entire Truth of Dr. Mayim Bialik
For years, Dr. Mayim Bialik has been challenging our notion of what it means to be a girl and woman.In a world that has a clear bias against women in science, Dr. Bialik received her Ph.D. in...
View ArticleCompound Word Puzzles
Compound words are made up of two parts of speech. For example, the compound noun handkerchief is made up of two nouns: hand + kerchief. Semantically, compound words are very interesting, since their...
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Breaking: Homo naledi Fossils are Young, Second Cave Found
Big news in the world of paleoanthropology today. The recently discovered Homo naledi is a lot younger than previously thought, and a second cave of fossils has been found. I caught up with Lee Berger...
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Reverse Engineering the Brain
Source: Wikimedia Commons user WolfgangbeyerCan we learn everything about the brain by studying individual brain cells? It started with a simple equation. A mathematician named Benoit Mandelbrot...
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The Psychology of a First Impression!
Source: "Dr. Woody"Researchers have found that we make decisions about people within seconds to minutes of first seeing them. Making judgements about others based on our initial observations is...
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The Best Mothers’ Day Gift
It is that time of year again, when the ads for flowers abound, and we search the greeting card racks for that perfect message to let Mom know how we feel. For me, Mother’s Day has always been...
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6 Ways to Stop Worrying About Things You Can't Control
Source: Fotolia.comThere's a brutal truth in life that some people refuse to accept—you have no control over many of the things that happen in life.Some of the people who resist that truth become...
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Feeling Proud of Yourself Doesn't Mean You're a Narcissist
It’s rarely considered a compliment to call someone “proud,” especially when this personal quality is accompanied by a narcissistic need for recognition and adoration from others. If you had to choose...
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Keeping Patients Safe
A Modern “Epidemic”Some evidence indicates that medical errors are now the third leading cause of death in the United States. This is based on the fact that every hour nearly forty patients die in U.S....
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Munchausen by Proxy or Con Artist Mom?
Source: used with permission from iclipart.comFrom a forensic psychology perspective, the tragic story of Gypsy and Dee Blancharde (to be featured in an HBO documentary on May 15) is an extreme example...
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7 Ways to Measure Relationship Health
A perfect storm of financial stressors is motivating many institutions, including colleges and universities, to re-think the products or programs they will continue to offer as they seek out new ways...
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Who Initiates Divorce More Often?
One might think that the majority of divorces in heterosexual marriages are initiated by men, due to the financial and social difficulties that many women face post divorce (Brinig & Allen, 2000)....
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Blasphemy!
It has been a week of blasphemy, both religious and secular. In the secular realm, philosopher Rebecca Tuvel got taken to task by a posse of hundreds of concerned citizens—some styling themselves as...
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Pregnancy Causes Changes in Brain Structure
Intriguing research describing changes in the brain linked to pregnancy has recently been reported by Elseline Hoekzema and colleagues in the journal NatureNeuroscience. Using MRI (magnetic resonance...
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Do Young People Feel the Need to Be Selfie-Ready?
Source: Pamela Rutledge/ShutterstockDo young people feel the need to be “selfie-ready”? Before you go to the knee-jerk ‘yes,’ it’s important to separate out the developmental drives of young...
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The Blockchain Is Being Under-Hyped
Source: Moses MaI remember attending a conference audience in the late 1990s, back when everyone was complaining that the Internet was being irrationally overhyped. Eric Schmidt, who was then CTO of...
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Why the Happiness Chase Is Making You Unhappy
As the Happyologist, a happiness coach that earns her livelihood from making people happy, I should encourage people to chase happiness. Except I can't. Why? Because it's the chase that is making...
View ArticleAfter-School Programs Do Work!
Consider this scene, one that occurs at the end of the school day all across America: Children stream out of school at the end of the day. For some, mothers have lined up in cars outside the school...
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Staying Open to Life despite Losses
When I sat down to count the number of times that I lost a friendship by actions of another, I didn't imagine I would reach the number 29 in the last 27 years, almost all of them close friends, or...
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