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