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Mindfulness can change how we experience time, making it easier to wait for future rewards without relying on greater willpower.
The modern scientific consensus is that your unconscious mind does the heavy lifting.
Sometimes the best escape isn’t a weekend away. It’s the park just down the road.
Whether students feel pressure to get good grades or keep up with classmates, the anxiety this effort produces can have long-term effects on their brains.
Despite being more connected than any previous generation, many young people report struggling to build friendships that provide a genuine sense of closeness.
With social media communities and naturalist apps, birding is easier to get into than ever. A psychologist explains why it may also be just what the doctor ordered.
Importantly, even if we don’t believe in free will, our sense of accountability stays intact, according to new research.
Taking small, personal actions doesn’t seem to stop people from seeing the big picture on climate change.
The promise of dating apps like Tinder was to make it easier to meet people, but the results have included more casual sexual encounters, greater difficulty finding stable relationships and an even more competitive dating scene.
If a young person trusts the system to deliver a just outcome, their brain’s urgent need for retribution is dialled down.
Why a pile of unread books is not stressful, yet a pile of unread emails is.
A new film about the climate emergency is designed to change behaviour. But there’s a risk that in-depth discussions replace action.
Spoonerisms can be silly and make you laugh. But linguists see something more: a rare glimpse of how the mind plans speech before we even open our mouths.
World Cup interceptions reveal how the brain predicts movement, how the body responds and what changes when fatigue sets in.
Elite teams plan for heat, recovery and warning signs. Workplaces expecting effort during heatwaves need the same kind of thinking.
Finding a reason to learn that comes from within ourselves - intrinsic motivation - is key.
A group of researchers examine the communication barriers impacting social science professionals’ credibility and how people make sense of their expertise.
A major new analysis of nearly 40,000 people finds memories of childhood abuse and neglect stay remarkably stable over time.
Psychologists have spent years studying how we feel about our bodies. Now research is turning to a part of us most people obsess over daily, but rarely examine – our hair.
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Trinity College Dublin
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Professor of Psychology, Monmouth University
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Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, UNSW
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Professor of the Psychology of Time, Liverpool John Moores University
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Associate Professor, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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Professor of Consumer Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, University of Lincoln
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Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Social Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University