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Does All Research Have a Point? (Should It?)

I’m a big fan of scientific and behavioral research. It’s interesting and useful and fun to read (well, not fun fun) and I believe it usually matters even when it doesn’t seem to. Even so, sometimes I...

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Women in the Sciences: Fire Up Your Inner Dilbert

Dilbert lives. The socially awkward engineer is turning up in research labs—and not only as the guy in the lab coat. Research out of Cornell University and published in the journal of the International...

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My Brain is Tired…Whatever That Means

My brain is tired. My work as a freelance writer requires a lot of thinking. Not only a lot of thinking, but a lot of thinking about a lot of different subjects. Research too. And then, after I’ve...

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The Language of Dementia

New research from Penn State and the Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging finds that caregivers of people with dementia are not listening to what the people they care for want. The researchers interviewed...

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Daydreaming As Our Default Mode (And Why That’s Not Great)

Last night, my yoga and meditation teacher mentioned her surprise at how  much easier meditation gets over time. She no longer has to work nearly as hard as she once did, she said, to reach a...

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How Pain Ate My Brain

The other day I learned that I’ve been walking around for the better part of a decade with a dislocated toe. I knew something was wrong. I’d had it X-rayed and the doctor said it looked like I’d jammed...

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Fear of Parties: One Good Reason

"Face" by Joyce J. Scott/Yale University Art Gallery New research finds a small but significant correlation between social anxiety and ability to recognize faces. Yes. Oh yes. I don’t have severe...

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Good Stuff I’ve Learned In A Year Of Real World Research

This blog celebrated its first anniversary on January 1, so I am therefore compelled (it’s the law) to reflect on the past year. Writing Real World Research has been fun and also a lot of work. I read...

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Imagery and the Mind and Mindfulness

I’ve only just started reading the new book by fellow PyschCentral blogger Elisha Goldstein, and I’ve already found something useful. Goldstein is a psychologist in private practice, and his excellent...

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Looking at the Negative (Spaces) In Our World

Elisha Goldstein’s book, The Now Effect, has sent my brain spinning in yet another direction. The anecdote: A professor stood before a philosophy class holding an empty jar. As the students took their...

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