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Designing Personalized ADHD-Friendly Systems

Designing Personalized ADHD-Friendly Systems

Recognizing existing habits can make a difference for neurodivergent thinkers.

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Catherine J. Mutti-Driscoll Ph.d

Critical Thinking Tips for Close Encounters With UFO Claims

Critical Thinking Tips for Close Encounters With UFO Claims

Why eyewitness accounts and memory can mislead us about UFOs.

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Guy P. Harrison

Between Two Worlds: Navigating Modern Fatherhood

Between Two Worlds: Navigating Modern Fatherhood

Many dads today feel more fulfilled, but also more overwhelmed.

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Rachel Glik Ed.d

Do Narcissists Know They're Narcissistic?

Do Narcissists Know They're Narcissistic?

Most narcissists don't think their personality is a problem.

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Gwendolyn Seidman Ph.d

Senior Cats: How to Keep Your Kitty Happy as They Age

Senior Cats: How to Keep Your Kitty Happy as They Age

The small changes you can make to give your older cat a better life.

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Zazie Todd Ph.d

Why You Adapt to Things You Never Intended to Accept

Why You Adapt to Things You Never Intended to Accept

Our lives are shaped by the small compromises we make as we move through our days.

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Shermin Kruse J.d

Sobriety and Recovery: It’s Important to Know the Difference

Sobriety and Recovery: It’s Important to Know the Difference

Defining sobriety and recovery, which shouldn't be used interchangeably.

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Traci Sweet Psy.d

How to Cultivate Spacious Thinking

How to Cultivate Spacious Thinking

Flexible thinking can enhance well-being and help us navigate conflict.

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Lizabeth Roemer Ph.d

Does the Body Keep the Score, or Does the Brain Predict It?

Does the Body Keep the Score, or Does the Brain Predict It?

A recent paper challenges the idea that the body keeps the score.

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Marwa Azab Ph.d

Debunking Common Myths About Reading and Child Development

Debunking Common Myths About Reading and Child Development

What every parent and caregiver should know about children and reading.

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Terri D. McFadden

Workplace Well-Being After 6 Years of Collective Strain

Workplace Well-Being After 6 Years of Collective Strain

Both employees and organizations are struggling, and there is no simple fix.

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Peter Andrew Danzig Lcsw

How to Combat Marital Malaise

How to Combat Marital Malaise

5 habits to break to rekindle your love.

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Kathy McCoy Ph.d

The Unexpected Gifts of Grandfatherhood

The Unexpected Gifts of Grandfatherhood

Personal Perspective: What grandfatherhood teaches us.

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Jeff Segal Psy.d

The Secret Power of Forgetting

The Secret Power of Forgetting

Why forgetting is essential for memory, adaptation, and well-being.

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Michiko Kimura Bruno M.d

The Relationship Was Fine—Until One of Us Started Growing

The Relationship Was Fine—Until One of Us Started Growing

Why personal growth can create unexpected tension in healthy relationships.

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Mark B. Borg

The Reasoning and Impact of Being Childless

The Reasoning and Impact of Being Childless

Parenthood was once common; why have things changed so dramatically?

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Gary Wenk Ph.d

The Mind Is a Computer. Now the Computer Is a Mind

The Mind Is a Computer. Now the Computer Is a Mind

How AI exploits our evolved leader-follower psychology.

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Zachary H. Garfield Ph.d

When Communication Gets Tough With Hearing Loss, Just Breathe

When Communication Gets Tough With Hearing Loss, Just Breathe

Have hearing loss? Mindful breathing can ease the stress of tough conversations.

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Shari Eberts

Ear Ringing and the Residual Self

Ear Ringing and the Residual Self

The Default Mode Network, tinnitus, and neuropsychology.

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Hamid Djalilian M.d

What Is Pornmaxxing? "Love Island" and the Performance of Desire

What Is Pornmaxxing?

Repeated exposure to hyper-sexual scripts desensitizes; the fallout is hardest on women.

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Cheralyn Leeby Ph.d

What Not to Say to Someone With Chronic Pain

What Not to Say to Someone With Chronic Pain

Personal Perspective: Supporting someone with chronic pain, from a psychologist who has lived it.

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Carly Hunt Ph.d

Why Women Orgasm More Alone Than With a Partner

Why Women Orgasm More Alone Than With a Partner

The barriers to women’s orgasms are relational, not anatomical.

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Karen L. Blair Ph.d

What to Do About Screen Time This Summer

What to Do About Screen Time This Summer

6 strategies to develop a healthy play diet and reduce screen time.

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Randy Kulman Ph.d

Social Media Was Never Really About Connecting With Friends

Social Media Was Never Really About Connecting With Friends

Tips for reducing political polarization on social media.

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Rosanna E. Guadagno Ph.d

The Cult of Freud

The Cult of Freud

What happens when a movement protects its founder instead of the truth?

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Steven A Hassan

Two Friendship Benefits of Perspective-Taking

Two Friendship Benefits of Perspective-Taking

Helping children become more considerate of others and less hurt by assumptions.

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Pamela D. Brown Ph.d

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Is a Story About People

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Is a Story About People

What UAP disclosure may reveal about us.

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Jennice Vilhauer Ph.d

Breaking the Cycle of Abuse Requires Self-Reflection

Breaking the Cycle of Abuse Requires Self-Reflection

Exploring personal history and emotions is the first step toward change.

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Beverly Engel L.m.f.t

How to Deal with Humans with Dog Problems and Vice Versa

How to Deal with Humans with Dog Problems and Vice Versa

A new book by Laurel Saville explains how to transform human-dog relationships.

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Marc Bekoff Ph.d

Pushing Back Against Technology: The Rise of Neo-Luddism

Pushing Back Against Technology: The Rise of Neo-Luddism

Will a less tech-obsessed routine become the next big healthy lifestyle choice?

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Joe Pierre M.d

You Ruined My Life—Now You Owe Me!

You Ruined My Life—Now You Owe Me!

Why parents of struggling adult children get hung up on helping vs. enabling.

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Jeffrey Bernstein Ph.d

Why We Need Neurodiversity Pride

Why We Need Neurodiversity Pride

Personal Perspective: Neurodiversity pride is neurodiversity survival.

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Katie Rose Guest Pryal J.d

How Do You Introduce Your Child to Right and Wrong?

How Do You Introduce Your Child to Right and Wrong?

You can teach kids right and wrong whether or not you have a religious affiliation.

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Corinne Masur Psy.d

How Stress and Anxiety Distort Reality

How Stress and Anxiety Distort Reality

Our perceptions are shaped by expectations, stress, anxiety, and expectations.

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Gina Simmons Schneider Ph.d

Match Making: Shared Reality Can Enhance Romance

Match Making: Shared Reality Can Enhance Romance

Many couples experience the seduction of similarity.

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Wendy L. Patrick

15 Signs Your Church Functions Like a Cult

15 Signs Your Church Functions Like a Cult

Religious cults mandate strict separatism, censorship, and autocratic control.

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Araya Baker

New Research Shows Optimism May Reduce the Risk of Dementia

New Research Shows Optimism May Reduce the Risk of Dementia

How to strengthen your optimism and increase your ability to flourish.

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Diane E Dreher Ph.d

Can Awe Actually Improve Mental Health?

Can Awe Actually Improve Mental Health?

The first randomized controlled trial of awe reveals promising results.

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Andy Tix Ph.d

When Adult Siblings Don't Get Along

When Adult Siblings Don't Get Along

Once siblings are on their own, their differences can take their toll.

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Robert Taibbi L.c.s.w

Why FIFA Feels Bigger Than Football

Why FIFA Feels Bigger Than Football

What a global tournament reveals about our shared need to matter.

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Rabiya Karamali Edd

How Well Can You Spot Happy and Unhappy Strangers?

How Well Can You Spot Happy and Unhappy Strangers?

Strangers are really good at detecting your mental state in under a minute.

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Todd B. Kashdan Ph.d

What Do Teenagers Think About Misophonia on Social Media?

What Do Teenagers Think About Misophonia on Social Media?

Learn from the perspectives of two teenage misophonia advocates.

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Jennifer J. Brout Psy.d

The Friendship Imbalance No One Talks About

The Friendship Imbalance No One Talks About

What to do when you're carrying the friendship alone.

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Marisa G. Franco Ph.d

The Mystery of Alcatraz Continues

The Mystery of Alcatraz Continues

Three inmates vanished in the Bay in 1962. The story continues to draw attention.

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Cathy Scott

Current Mandated Reporter Rules Can Harm Children

Current Mandated Reporter Rules Can Harm Children

Personal Perspective: We need to empower therapists to use their judgement.

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Gabriel Young Ph.d

Can the Embodied Self Explain Near-Death Experiences?

Can the Embodied Self Explain Near-Death Experiences?

What disrupted brain-body signals may reveal about selfhood.

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Hamid Zand Ph.d

When Cofounders Stop Hearing Each Other, Here's What to Do

When Cofounders Stop Hearing Each Other, Here's What to Do

Why partnership communication breaks down and what the research suggests.

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Matthew Jones Psy.d

What the World Cup Can Teach Us About Cultural Humility

What the World Cup Can Teach Us About Cultural Humility

How soccer's biggest stage challenges assumptions about identity and belonging.

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Chandra Davis Atr-Bc

Musk Gambles, Marx Nods: Economic Abundance Is Not Fulfillment

Musk Gambles, Marx Nods: Economic Abundance Is Not Fulfillment

A post-scarcity future leaves the most pressing questions unanswered.

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Mark Horowitz Ph.d

Chemistry Isn’t Magnetic. It’s Neuroscience

Chemistry Isn’t Magnetic. It’s Neuroscience

The surprising science to make people feel instantly connected to you.

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Cathleen G Beachboard Ma