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Benefits of extracurricular sports extend into the classroom
Researchers have found that children participating in extracurricular sporting activities are more likely to follow rules and remained focused in the classroom...
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The Importance of Hide-and-Seek
It’s a game. But it’s also what we need in life: the freedom to be found...
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Photo selection study reveals we don’t look like we think we look
Be careful when choosing your next passport photo or profile image as a new study suggests we are so poor at picking good likenesses of our face that strangers make better selections...
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Tips for Keeping That Post-Vacation Feeling
Maintaining pleasure after a great vacation is a challenge, but there are vacation-extending tactics that can help...
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Yes, Androids Do Dream of Electric Sheep
Google sets up feedback loop in its image recognition neural network - which looks for patterns in pictures - creating hallucinatory images of animals, buildings and landscapes which veer from beautiful to terrifying. What do machines dream of? New images released by Google give us one potential answer: hypnotic landscapes of buildings, fountains and bridges merging into one...
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10 Tips to Make Therapy Work for You
There's plently of research evidence out there that shows that therapy can help people. But we also know that it helps some people more than others. Just why that's so is a complex question that I can't explore thoroughly here. But I can say that a lot of research indicates that two of the most significant factors in effective therapy are the quality of your connection with your therapist and your own contribution to the work...
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Shady Science: How the Brain Remembers Colors
Many cultures have the same colour words or categories, said Jonathan Flombaum, a cognitive psychologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In the first experiment, they asked people to look at a colour wheel with 180 different hues, and asked them to find the best name for each colour...
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A stiff upper lip makes sense to baby
When you're one and a half years old, having your favourite ball taken away is likely to result in a temper tantrum. But while babies wear their feelings on the sleeves of their onesies, adults often mask their emotions, responding to life's disappointments with stoic reserve...
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The Surprising Reason Why Some People Smile More
It turns out, whether you're quick to laugh and smile may be partly in the genes. "One of these big mysteries is why do some people laugh a lot, and smile a lot, and other people keep their cool," said study co-author Claudia Haase, a psychology researcher at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois...
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