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Career decision-making represents a critical transition point for graduate students, particularly in contexts where misalignment between higher education outcomes and labor market opportunities persists. Despite…
This study investigates the differences in visual attention between expert and novice soccer referees using a multiple object tracking (MOT) task, with a specific focus on how tracking speed modulates these differences…
The present study investigates how GPT language models approximate human sentence-processing dynamics in Korean subject honorification. Drawing upon four open-access datasets from prior psycholinguistic…
The present study examined whether behavioral features extracted from a digital Mandala coloring task could predict childrenâs stress-related vulnerability group status (stress-alert vs. non-alert), as independently…
Athletic mental energy is a multidimensional psychological resource associated with athletes’ performance and well-being. The present study examined the cross-validation and cross-cultural measurement invariance of the…
The integration of auditory and visual cues supports efficient speech and emotion perception, yet little is known about how emotional salience interacts with temporal congruency during audiovisual binding. In this study…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. The tradwife trend is having a moment. Tradwives, or “traditional wives,” hold the belief that women should care for the household, while men should provide…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye For most of my career in the ER, I was good at asking the right questions. When a patient presented with chest pain, I always asked, “When did it start? Does it radiate? Any…
I ranked 56th out of one million students on Türkiye's university entrance exam, earned a master's degree from Harvard as a Fulbright and TEV scholar, and completed my Ph.D. at Cambridge, with a year as a visiting PhD…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. Weâve all been here. Youâre standing in the kitchen, dinner is half-cooked, and your child wanders in, drops his arms like lead weights, and lets out those two…
Ahana Tiwari is a trainee sub-editor with a keen eye for storytelling, performances, and cultural nuance. She has reviewed films ...
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. Mel Robbins' book Let Them is still a bestseller nearly two years after publication. The concept struck a chord with millions of people. This two-word phrase has…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye Social connections are the lifeblood of what it means to be human. Relationships are an integral part—if not the integral part—of the human experience. We know this is true…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. Every semester, in my Power and Influence course, a familiar moment arrives. We are deep into a negotiation exercise or a role‑play designed to surface real…
We compare ourselves with other people. We do so in different ways, in different situations. We may or may not be aware of the comparisons we make. We may or may not realize, for good or ill, how these comparisons affect…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye In my previous post, I wrote about my client Dennis’s painful memories of his incendiary response to a crisis that his son, Luke, was in the midst of during high school. We…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk I was recently speaking with someone about her experience as an employee for a large organization in the corporate world. Her main memory was that it was confusing and…
A long-term study challenges one of society's biggest assumptions about relationships and happiness.
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk For children, summer often means freedom: no homework, no early alarms, and more time to relax, travel, and spend time with family and friends. For co-parents, however…
I routinely offer a brief phone chat with prospective clients—I explain our approach, hear about the concern that has led them to consider therapy, and build positive expectations about potential outcomes. But I had…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk There is a widely told story about a visitor who goes to the circus and asks the elephant trainer why the animal can be controlled by just a stake in the ground and a…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye We’ve all heard them. Queer. F*g. D*ke. These LGBTQ slurs are disturbingly common in everyday vernacular. They are fixtures in society. But what motivates people to use LGBTQ…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Misogyny is often imagined as obvious hostility toward women: harassment, violence, discrimination, or openly declaring that women are less capable than men. But misogyny…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Although we know it’s a myth, as we age, many of us continue to search for the proverbial fountain of youth so that we can turn back the clock, or age more slowly. What…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan Maybe you shouldn't throw away that old iPod. A recent Harvard Gazette article on the "tech-lash" caught my attention. It was built around an interview with the analyst…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye You're mid-sentence in one language when a word from another shows up instead. Or you reach for a word in your first language and find it in your second one first. Or you…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Most humans no longer experience artificial intelligence (AI) as dramatic. What felt like a grand technological revolution in 2022 is gradually becoming a standard asset…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader New research shows that people with access to AI-generated answers are less willing to admit "I don't know," even when those answers are wrong. In the study…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader Most of us remember the first time we met the important people in our lives: from our boss to our beau to our best friend. First impressions are surprisingly enduring…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader Co-authored by Lena Wang, Haiying Kang, Joe Jiang and March To Choosing a career is not easy; it involves a complex psychological process. People need to figure out…
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