How Power Poses Took Over the World

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Psychologists continue to grapple over whether standing like Superman changes the mind—and the body Every year, people at hundreds of schools and workplaces around the world are taught how to …

How Antisocial Personality Disorder Is Diagnosed

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Antisocial personality disorder is diagnosed based on meeting criteria described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual on Mental Disorders, the book that mental health professionals use to assess patients. Although …

Are All Pleasures Pretty Much The Same?

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Parents often say that they don’t mind what their children do in life just as long as they are happy. Happiness and pleasure are almost universally seen as among the …

What are delusions of grandeur?

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A delusion of grandeur is a false or unusual belief about one’s greatness. A person may believe, for instance, that they are famous, can end world wars, or that they …

Autism From The Inside

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Too many depictions of autistic people rely on tired clichés. The neurotypical world needs to take note of our own voices. I found myself at a lunch table recently with …

A Landmark Study on the Origins of Alcoholism

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By studying rats in a smarter way, scientists are finally learning something useful about why some drinkers become addicted and others don’t. For Markus Heilig, the years of dead ends …

Does Getting Angry Make You Angrier?

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Should angry people act out how they feel? The popular idea is that venting your anger helps get rid of it. There’s even a woman in San Diego who makes …

The Psychology of Roller Coasters

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Perhaps the draw of roller coasters is the enjoyment of the visceral sensation of fear itself, much like watching a horror movie. Roller coasters may seem like a very modern …