WOOP, There It Is! 4 Steps To Achieve Your Goals
Positive thinking feels good but it may actually stop you from achieving your goals. This week, we discuss a different approach called WOOP.
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Top Medical Journals Give Women Researchers Short Shrift
Women scientists get first-author credit on medical studies much less often than their male coauthors. That has career implications and could even be skewing the study of women's health.
Study Finds Deep Conversations Can Reduce Transgender Prejudice
After a study about support for gay marriage was faked, the debunkers performed the experiment for real. This time, the results suggest canvassing door to door might reduce prejudice long-term.
To Catch Someone On Tinder, Stretch Your Arms Wide
How people sit or where their arms and legs are in the images they share loom large in potential daters' calculations, according to experiments involving speed dating and an online dating app.
Power Suits: How Dressing For Success At Work Can Pay Off
Being better dressed can give you a psychological boost that makes you behave more like a leader. One study found that men dressed in suits negotiated a higher profit than casually clad counterparts.
If You Set High Expectations For Your Marriage, Is It Doomed?
People often expect a great many things out of a marriage. That can work if spouses are pragmatic about what they're really able to deliver on, a study finds.
Treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Adrienne Livengood
Radio Camper Reese Sizemore talks to Adrienne Livengood. Livengood is a Teaching Assistant in the Psychology Department at Salem College.
They Brought Cookies: For A New Widow, Empathy Eases Death's Pain
Her husband died. Then the neighbors started showing up. They brought soup. Cookies. Tea. But what they really brought was empathy. And that made the pain bearable.
Sometimes It's OK To Feel The Feels, Sweetheart
Women are now much more likely to want to use medication to control their moods, psychiatrist Julie Holland says in her book Moody Bitches. But "not every emotion ... needs to be eradicated."
A Judge's Guidance Makes Jurors Suspicious Of Any Eyewitness
A 2012 New Jersey law was meant to help juries discern factors that make eyewitness testimony strong versus weak. But research suggests a judge's instructions make jurors discount all such testimony.