Ask Alison: When to Get a Number, Replacing Dogs, and Long-Distance Confrontation
Good advice from someone who is terrible at dating
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Good advice from someone who is terrible at dating
How unthinking racial essentialism finds its way into scientific research
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The many considerations in "repairing" the face of a child
Augmenting psychiatric diagnosis with data
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British elementary school students believed an overweight storybook character was more likely to be naughty and less likely to have friends.
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Positions on economic redistribution correlated with upper-body strength.
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Resarch subjects were better able to will themselves into positive moods while listening to rousing symphonies.
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Write a show about a family man with an incurable neurodegenerative condition, and make it funny and not manipulative. Okay, go.
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The psychology of lost causes
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Psychiatrists who take time with their patients are not the norm. It's not because others don't care. Rather the system rewards efficiency, not empathy.
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