Can perfectionism kill you?
The major hypothesis of the study was that perfectionism as a personality trait, along with the five-factor personality traits and dispositional optimism, is strongly associated with mortality in late life.…
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Reading Can Help Satisfy Our Need For Belonging
Via Eurekalert: In an upcoming study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, Gabriel and graduate student Ariana Young show what that something is: When we…
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Can job insecurity harm your health?
Economic recessions, the industrial shift from manufacturing toward service industries, and rising global competition have contributed to uncertainty about job security, with potential consequences for workers’ health. To address limitations…
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Should you trust your gut when deciding whether a neighborhood is safe or not?
Via Science Daily: It's an unfamiliar neighborhood and you find yourself in the middle of a bunch of streets and buildings you've never seen before. Giving the environment a quick…
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How To Create A Feedback Loop Of Happiness
We examine whether a positive feedback loop exists between spending money on others (i.e. prosocial spending) and happiness. Participants recalled a previous purchase made for either themselves or someone else…
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How You Should Spend Your Time In Order To Increase Happiness
A good article on Stanford Knowledgebase by Alicia DePlante covers research by Aaker, Rudd, and Mogilner. Here are the takeaway points on how to increase happiness by changing how you…
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Does smiling make humorous things funnier?
We investigated the hypothesis that people's facial activity influences their affective responses. Two studies were designed to both eliminate methodological problems of earlier experiments and clarify theoretical ambiguities. This was…
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Poor Fitness Is Contagious
The increase in obesity over the past 30 years has led researchers to investigate the role of social networks as a contributing factor. However, several challenges make it difficult to…
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