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The Time Paradox: the new psychology of time that will change your life.

... that by spending more time on choosing the right gift, you don’t really waste time, and you give a very precious gift – your time ... / more

The antidote: happiness for people who can't stand positive thinking

... after graduating next summer?” and “What, you still don’t have a plan for the future? Doesn’t that make you feel ... – Well, what am I supposed to say? “No, I don’t” and “Yeah, a little”? “Can we please talk about someone ... appealing, I’m still convinced that what I definitely don’t need right now is one of those self-help books. Fortunately, I’m ... / more

Anger Management

... to extreme rage. We all become angry, and most of us don’t like it. The question is how to get rid of anger, or at least reduce ... / more

Are You a “Real Man”? How Men Earn and Prove Manhood Status

... have lots of male friends who like Adam Lambert, but they don’t want people to think they’re gay”). Why might this be the case? ... have lots of male friends who like Adam Lambert, but they don’t want people to think they’re gay”); and many men assiduously avoid ... / more

How on Earth Do People Understand Each Other in Everyday Conversation?

... and appearance is mutually known, and you consequently don 't need to describe this to your conversation partner. A second rule of ... simply means that once you have mentioned something, you don 't need to explain it again.  A third and very interesting finding is ... / more

Penetrating the Circle of Death: Why People are Dying (and Killing) Not to Die

... as well when he said, "I’m not afraid of dying – I just don’t want to be there when it happens." The idea of death occupies a unique ... / more

Love at First Sight

... them, may simply be anomalies that, in and of themselves, don’t prove a thing, however funny or fascinating the correlations might ... / more

The Anatomy of Love

... of all you need" are one reason that psychologists don 't pack stadiums. Suffice it to say that love is important. Very ... deepen” over time ( Altman & Taylor , 1973). Most people don’t feel comfortable spilling their guts to a person who hasn’t even ... / more

There’s Something About Zero

... anyone wouldn’t have these sensations. Some synaesthetes don’t discover that their sensations are unusual for decades, and even those ... on in the areas of the brain that are involved in it. We don’t yet know precisely which areas these are, and they are likely to be ... / more

The Double Edged Passion

... understood only recently:  ingroup biasesreally don 't take much to get started. Henri Tajfel's minimal ingroup ... the predominant belief about "why we hate" is that "we don 't." When asked “who are you prejudiced against?” most people respond ... / more