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By compiling millions and millions of League of Legends data points, researchers hint at “psychological traits across global populations.”
Continue ReadingBy compiling millions and millions of League of Legends data points, researchers hint at “psychological traits across global populations.”
Continue ReadingOn this afternoon’s ride, for the life of me I could not convince my daughter to start back home with me…
Continue ReadingYou are The Music explores how we relate to music and how it in turn influences us and helps us develop throughout every stage of our lives.
Continue ReadingClinical Psychologist Andrea Letamendi joins GeekMom Nicole Wakelin to talk about cosplay. Is it healthy? Is it okay for adults to become so immersed in pretending to be someone else?
Continue ReadingAfter marriage your well-being dips and after divorce it rises; after childbirth, relationship satisfaction is permanently below its pre-birth level -– so says a meta-analysis of 2,159 studies, published this week in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Sound …
Continue ReadingGrowing up in my generation (1980s) and prior, going back to the advent of the television, it was inevitable that our young minds would be shaped by the world around us, including the technicolor world of television. While what we …
Continue ReadingOnce upon a time, long before parenthood was on my radar, when I was young, single and training to be a city Metro driver, a crotchety old-timer on the fleet taught me to smile at each and every passenger who stepped onto my trolley.
Continue ReadingAs a writer, one of the things I am most fascinated by is human behavior, the choices we make, why we make them, what calls or pushes us to one action and prevents us from making another. What drives the human psyche? Because the truth is, our preciously held and highly valued ability to make […]
Continue ReadingWhile Batman, Iron Man and Spider-Man might be impressive and powerful at the box office, they aren’t so good for today’s youth say psychologists. During last week’s Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (Psy-Con?) mental health professionals said that, …
Continue ReadingIf you know me, you know that I’m big on change. I try to change myself, I try to change my community. (I haven’t quite gotten up to trying to change the world.) And the one thing I’ve learned from …
Continue ReadingI’ve always been fascinated with how our brains function—or, in some cases, fail to function. In college I took a course called “Vision and the Brain” which talked a lot about how our brain processes visual input. The best part …
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