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Developmental, Mental health, The self June 3, 2019July 8, 2019

Researchers Have Investigated “Derailment” (Feeling Disconnected From Your Past Self) As A Cause And Consequence Of Depression

By Christian Jarrett. To the researchers’ surprise, greater derailment preceded reductions in depression.

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Developmental, Memory, Personality, The self May 28, 2019May 28, 2019

Teenagers Define Themselves Mostly In Terms Of Their Positive Traits; Adults More In Terms Of Their Social Roles

By Christian Jarrett. This is the first systematic study of teenagers’ “self-images”.

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Weekly links October 11, 2019

Brain Training And Counting Bees: This Week’s Best Psychology Links

Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web

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Weekly links January 24, 2020January 24, 2020

WEIRD Studies And Psychedelic Experiences: The Week’s Best Psychology Links

Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web

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Emotion, Mental health, Music April 24, 2019May 1, 2019

Why Do People With Depression Like Listening To Sad Music?

By Christian Jarrett. The findings challenge the idea that depressed people are seeking to perpetuate their low mood.

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Educational, Memory April 4, 2019April 4, 2019

What Do Today’s Students Get Right And Wrong In How They Take Lecture Notes?

By Christian Jarrett. The mundanity and apparent simplicity of taking notes belies the importance of this activity for learning.

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Intelligence April 3, 2019May 1, 2019

People With Greater Intellectual Humility Have Superior General Knowledge

By Christian Jarrett. Today intellectual humility is arguably needed more than ever – the insight and honesty to hold your hands up and say you’re ignorant or inexpert about an issue.

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Emotion, evolutionary psych, Mental health June 25, 2019April 16, 2020

Psychologists Have Identified The Creatures We Find Most Scary And Revolting

By Christian Jarrett. The spider was unique in being intensely fear- and disgust-inducing in equal measure.

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Brain, Mental health, Psychosis June 24, 2019June 24, 2019

A Key Brain Difference Between Voice-Hearing Patients And Voice-Hearing Healthy Controls Challenges The “Continuum Model”

By Christian Jarrett. The research focuses on a brain structure involved in “reality monitoring”.

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Health, Personality June 21, 2019June 21, 2019

Decades-Long Surveys Suggest The “Deleterious Effects of Smoking May Extend to Detrimental Personality Changes”

By Christian Jarrett. Dishearteningly, giving up smoking was not associated with positive personality changes.

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