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• The Three Most Basic Psychological Needs, and Why We Need to Satisfy Them
• People Who Are Consciously Aware of Their Emotions Deal With Them More Effectively, Study Shows
• The Affect Heuristic: How We Feel is How We Think
• A 100-Year Old Word Repetition Technique is Effective in Reducing the Impact of (Negative) Words
• 8 Scientific Facts About Self-Control
• 6 Unfortunate Ways Traffic Noise Affects People
• 4 Ways to be Social and Relate to People
• 4 Ways to Develop Self-Efficacy Beliefs
• 8 Ways to Deal With Stress and Difficulties (Coping Strategies)
• 8 Psychological Mechanisms That Enable People to Hurt Others
• Avoid Anxiety by Reframing How You Think About Negative or Anxious Emotions and Situations
• 4 Reasons Why Some People Are Afraid of Happiness (Why Happiness Isn’t an Universal Ideal)

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• Negativity Bias: Why Negative Things Stand Out
• Almost All People Want to Change Their Personality, Study Finds
• The Psychology of Giving Great Gifts, According to Research
• Study: Your Generousity Creates More Generousity and Empathy in Others
• The Intuitive and Analytical Thinking Style: Which One is Yours?
• Analytical Thinkers are More Skeptical About Religious Ideas, Research Shows
• Anger Impairs People’s Cognitive Scope, Study Shows
• Study: Higher Income is Related to Less Daily Sadness but Not More Daily Happiness
• The Reasons Why People Maintain Negative Self-Evaluations
• The Three Most Basic Psychological Needs, and Why We Need to Satisfy Them
• Don’t Fear Responsibility Because ‘With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility’
• Social Effectiveness Therapy Beats Social Anxiety, Study Shows
• Psychology Resources: List of Blogs, Databases, and Videos
• The Saying ‘I Know How You Feel’ is Flawed, From a Psychologist’s Perspective
• Does Brain Training Work or is it a Waste of Time? This is What Research Shows
• The Affect Heuristic: How We Feel is How We Think
• Write Down Your Thoughts to Become More Mindful and Consciously Aware
• People Who Are Consciously Aware of Their Emotions Deal With Them More Effectively, Study Shows
• A 100-Year Old Word Repetition Technique is Effective in Reducing the Impact of (Negative) Words
• 7 Wonderful Live in the Moment Quotes
• Does Your Pursuit of Self-Esteem Damage You?
• How Your Social Network Influences Your Romantic Relationship
• Study: Anxious Parents May Attribute Negative Emotions to Their Children
• Can People Hold 7±2 Objects in their Short-Term Memory or What?
• 4 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself to Grow as a Person
• Study: Vacations Decrease Work-Related Stress, Especially in “Obsessive” Workers
• Wear the Right Clothes and Make the Right Impressions on Others: Dress to Impress
• Study: Choosing Products With Attractive Designs Affirms People’s Self-Image
• The Swedish 6-Hour Workday Experiment: A Brilliant Idea or Not?
• Stop Comparing Yourself to Others: Find Inner Peace With 3 Principles
• Study: Being in Love is Associated With Reduced Cognitive Control
• 20 Important Life Lessons I Learned From Running
• 12 Common Irrational Beliefs
• Are You Mind Full or Mindful?
• How Do People Deal With Too Many Options? (A Look at The Choice Overload Hypothesis)
• 4 Reasons Why Some People Are Afraid of Happiness (Why Happiness Isn’t an Universal Ideal)
• Why Positive Self-Talk is Essential in Sports
• Moderate Levels of Stress Enhance Learning, While High Levels of Stress Impair Learning
• The Psychology of Music: Why We Listen to Music and How It Affects The Mind
• 5 Classic Self-Discovery Quotes
• This Month’s 10 Most Popular Psychology Articles (May’14)
• Why Should I Forgive? Forgiveness Helps You Forget and Move On
• 3 Reasons Little Achievements Matter
• A DSM-5 Definition of Avoidant Personality Disorder
• Cognitive Dissonance: Why We Lie to Ourselves
• 3 Principles to be More Self-Compassionate
• 4 Ways Mindfulness Meditation Improves Well-Being
• Even A Fish Can Learn (Aquarium Experiment of Classical Conditioning)
• Most People Care About Animals So How Can They Eat Them?
• 20 Key Theories in Psychology
• Does Confidence in Your Memory Mean That You Are Correct?
• Connect With Nature, See Its Beauty, and Improve Your Well-Being, Research Shows
• Rather Than Love, Than Money, Than Fame, Give Me Truth (Quote)
• The Sounds of Nature Reduce Stress
• What is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
• Study: Dishonesty May Actually Lead to Greater Creativity
• A Stage Model of How our Mind and Body Respond to Traumatic Stress
• Do You Pick the Dead Man’s Solution? Focus on What You Want to Be Instead of What You Don’t Want to Be
• The Best Way to Learn is From Experience, But Experience Itself is Not Enough
• 8 Principles to Improve Memory
• 15 Cognitive Biases that Prevent Us From Thinking Rationally
• Who Win The Promiscuity Battle — Men or Women?
• 6 Handpicked Photos that Illustrate the Development of Human Beings
• Do You Have a Fixed or a Growth Mindset? Begin to Focus on Growth and Achieve Success
• The Beauty of Sleep (Quote)
• The Brain’s Reward System: Is Dopamine the Only ‘Feel Good’ Chemical?
• Do Males and Females Really Communicate in Different Ways?
• When People Lack a Sense of Control in Their Environment, They Make It Up in Their Heads
• Your Self-Control Decreases Throughout the Day, Study Shows
• Psychological Resilience: The Ability to Turn Stressful Life Events Into Personal Growth
• 6 Unfortunate Ways Traffic Noise Affects People (Research Findings)
• Learned Helplessness is “Just” a Way of Thinking
• 4 Ways to Develop Self-Efficacy Beliefs
• Are You In Control? Feelings of Personal Control Are Essential for Mental Health
• 8 Scientific Facts About Self-Control
• Study: Sleep Disturbances Predict the Course of Anxiety and Depressive Disorders
• The Impact Bias: Why We Overestimate the Emotional Impact of Future Events
• Consider This Before You Clean Up Your Room (Messy Rooms Encourage Creativity)
• Your Childhood Environment Predicts Whether You Spend or Save in Times of Economic Scarcity
• Soda Consumption May Cause Behavioural Problems in Children
• How the Brain Responds to Traumatic Events that Later Become Flashbacks
• Do Women Beat Men in Multitasking?
• Study: Narcissists Desire to be Liked by Others, Especially by People With Higher Status
• How to Spot a Narcissist
• Anxiety Runs in Families: How Parenting Promotes Anxiety
• Deal With Anxiety by Reframing How You Think About Negative or Anxious Emotions and Situations
• Self-Efficacy is Related to Motivation and Performance, Research Shows
• Rituals Restore Feelings of Control
• Humor Connects People: The Laughing and Liking Principle
• We Invest So Much Time In Mind Wandering, But How Does It Help Us?
• 5 Facts About Fear Appeals
• You May Empathize More With Attractive Others, Study Shows
• Study: Feelings of Flow May Lead to Risk-Taking Behavior
• Hindsight Bias: Why We View Events as More Predictable Than They Really Are
• Why People Fail to Make Accurate Predictions About Probability
• Study: People With Self-Discipline Are Happier
• The 5 Most Popular Psychology Articles This Month (Aug’13)
• Time Flies? Life Appears to Speed Up As People Get Older
• Are We More Connected to our Family and Friends? Yes, Brain Study Shows
• Study: Smiling Makes You More Attractive
• 5 Reasons Why People Reject Technology
• Posting Facebook Status Updates Fosters a Sense of Connectedness and Reduces Loneliness
• Sleep is Important for Memory and Learning Potential, Study Shows
• Are You Wise? Here is a 5 Factor Checklist Based on Research
• Mnemonic Devices: The Art of Improving Memory
• The Dynamics of Materialism and Loneliness
• Left-Brain vs. Right-Brain Personalities: Fact or Fiction?
• Psychology Shows How We Recognize Faces
• How We Perceive Depth (Monucular and Binocular Depth Cues)
• How The Brain Makes Sense of Sensory Stimuli: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processing
• What You Didn’t Know About Your Boss: Possession of Power Changes How the Brain Responds to Others
• The Placebo Effect: How Expectations Produce Real Effects
• The Zeigarnik Effect: The Tendency to Complete Things That Were Left Incomplete
• Study: People Who Help Others May Live Longer Compared to People Who Don’t
• 4 Assumptions About the Mean Value in Statistics
• The Certainty Effect: Why We Fail at Calculating Probabilities
• From Where Do We Get Our Morality? From Religion or Intuition?
• Ways to Deal With Difficulties: Problem-Focused and Emotion-Focused Coping
• Study: Attitudes About Celebrities Are Fairly Stable Over Time
• How Materialistic Aims Influence Psychological Well-Being
• Rituals Make Food More Tasty and Decrease Consumption
• Multitasking Reduces Taste Perception and Increases Food Consumption
• Therapist’s Burnout: A Consequence of Severe Mental and Emotional Fatigue
• 3 Ways to Prevent that the Moods of Others Affect You Negatively
• Study: Impulsive Traits Specific to Psychopathy Predict Lifetime Patterns of Violence
• Manual Experience With an Object Shapes Its Meaning
• How Brand Designs Influence Consumer Choices
• Optimism Bias: Why We Assume Brighter Tomorrows
• 3 Ways to Overcome Boredom
• Why We Earn Beyond Needs at the Cost of Happiness
• Medium Maximization: The Tendency to Focus on Immediate Outcomes
• Psychological Myopia: The Tendency to Think Short-Sightedly
• How Colors Affect Consumer Behavior (Empirical Studies)
• Meaning in Life Can Be Manipulated by Cognitive Scientists
• Extreme Political Attitudes are Difficult to Change for 5 Reasons
• Can Evolution Explain Why Women Become Attracted by Some Men Over Others?
• What Types of People Do Extreme Sports?
• Study: Feel Bad to Feel Great (Relief Boosts Positive Emotions)
• Can Evolution Explain Gender Differences in Jealousy?
• Instincts Might Explain Why People Hold Prejudices
• The Temporal Doppler Effect: Why the Future Feels so Close and the Past so Distant
• What is the Evidence for Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
• The Focusing-Effect: Why We End Up Making the Wrong Decisions
• 10 Factors that Influence Help-Seeking Behaviors
• A Study of 65,000 Participants Shows How People are Attachted to Their Partners
• How Attachment Styles Affect Relationships
• Stress Scores for Different Life Events (The Social Readjustment Rating Scale)
• The Halo Effect: Why We Judge People From First Hand Impressions
• Early Signs of Extraordinary Abilities Predict Success
• Study: Your Self-Concept Influences Your Product Choices
• Hurting You Hurts Me Too: The Psychological Costs of Hurting Someone
• An Exploration of the Differences Between Early Birds and Night Owls
• How Pets Influence our Health and Well-Being (Studies)
• Study: Urban Green Spaces Lower People’s Frustration and Stress
• Do We Have Free Will? People Believe They Have More Free Will Than Others
• Actor-Observer Bias: Why We Blame Other People Instead of Ourselves
• Psychological Medicine: Integrating Psychological Knowledge Into Medical Assessment
• How Your Mood Influences Your Cognitive Functioning
• The Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress
• Does True Altruism Exist?
• How People Pick Up Anxiety Through Classical Conditioning
• The Endowment Effect: Why We Overrate the Value of Stuff
• Achieve Happiness Through the Experience of Flow
• The Impact of Serotonin on Social Behaviors
• Predictors of Internet Addiction (Loneliness, Self-Esteem and Life Satisfaction)
• Object Attachment and Risk Perception Predicts Cell Phone Use While Driving
• Why Do People Shop Impulsively?
• Do You Become Easily Overwhelmed? Perhaps You Are a Highly Sensitive Person
• Study: Happy People are More Likely to Steal than People With Neutral Emotions
• A Life Course Metaphor (Quote)
• The Fine Distinction Between Personality Disorders and Clinical Syndromes (DSM-IV)
• Gender Differences in the Experience of Emotions
• Gender-Typed Behaviors are Linked to Depressive Symptoms, Low Self-Esteem, and Poor Friendship Quality in Boys
• The Power of a Social Purpose (Judgmental Bias)
• Does the Apple Fall Far From the Tree? Parent-Child Similarities in Attitudes
• The Effects of Glutamate in the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
• Self-Harm as a Means of Coping With Emotional Distress
• Body Dysmorphic Disorder: An Obsession With Beauty
• How Tryptophan Affects the Mind
• 4 Elementary Ways of Relating to Others
• The Ripple Effect (Emotional Contagion in Groups)
• Do What You Love and Stay Motivated (Self-Determination Theory)
• Can Personality Explain Why Some People Use Social Network Sites More Than Others?
• What Are The Main Functions of the Frontal and Temporal Lobes?
• A Look Into Personality and The Big Five Personality Traits
• Were Our Ancestors Depressed?
• How Money Affects the Brain’s Reward System (Why Money is Addictive)
• Why Are Some People More Social Than Others? The Difference Between Introverts and Extraverts
• What is the Self and How is it Formed? 3 Very Different Theories Try to Explain it
• What is an Identity Crisis?
• A Brief Overview of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• The Rationale for Adopting an Infant as Early as Possible: Considering Attachment Theory
• Rural-Urban Variations in Mental Illness
• 8 Psychological Mechanisms that Enable People to Hurt Others (The Psychology of Evilness)
• The Psychometric Quality of a Psychological Test