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Field Notes from a Demographer in Training
Going out to interview people in rural Kentucky brought the dry population statistics I work with vividly to life
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The True Costs of the COVID-19 Pandemic
It will kill many directly, but the effort to fight it will incur a huge toll on other aspects of our health and well-being
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What Neuroimaging Can Tell Us about Our Unconscious Biases
It reveals that they involve the amygdala, the prefrontal cortex, the posterior cingulate and the anterior temporal cortex
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Leading with the Unknowns in COVID-19 Models
In times of great uncertainty, we should look beyond the data
Whatever Helps You Feel Less Afraid, Tired and Lonely, Do That
Research on positive psychology may help prevent burnout
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Expression of Doubt
Psychologists can’t agree whether facial expressions reliably convey moods. But companies building emotion-recognition software aren’t waiting to find out
The Problem with Telling Children They’re Better Than Others
There is a superior way to motivate kids and make them feel proud about their accomplishments
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Want to Ease the Isolation of Social Distancing? Ask a Teenager
Teens’ tech skills can help keep us stay close when we’re physically apart
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Can India Contain the Pandemic?
Public health interventions can work in this poor and populous country—but only if the people are involved in designing and implementing them
How Can You Tell If You Have Perfect Pitch?
Some famous musicians—from Mariah Carey to Jimi Hendrix—have a gift known as perfect pitch. What is it? Could you have it, too?
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Polling Shows Signs of Public Trust in Institutions amid the Pandemic
The ongoing effort to fight COVID-19 wins broad support, even across partisan divides
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Our Trust in Science Is Complicated
In an era of big research, having confidence in scientists, individually or collectively, involves trade-offs
The Loneliness of the “Social Distancer” Triggers Brain Cravings Akin to Hunger
A study on isolation’s neural underpinnings implies many may feel literally “starved” for contact amid the COVID-19 pandemic
How Twitter Is Changing Medical Research
From online journal clubs to “tweetorials” to conference updates, social media is changing the dissemination and discussion of biomedicine
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Be Yourself—Everyone Else Is Taken
How to find meaning in life through authentic and autonomous living
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To Flatten the COVID-19 Curve, Target the Subconscious
Getting people to comply with social distancing policies is basically an exercise in marketing
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Must We All Become More Creative because of the Pandemic?
It worked for Shakespeare and Isaac Newton during plagues, but let’s not put more pressure on ourselves than we already have
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Why Some People Resist Advice on How to Behave in the Pandemic
The reason is a phenomenon called “solution aversion”
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As COVID-19 Spreads, So Do Negative Stereotypes of the Young and the Old
The pandemic is leading to an outbreak of age discrimination
Flat Earthers: What They Believe and Why
Michael Marshall, project director of the Good Thinking Society in the U.K., talks about flat earth belief and its relationship to conspiracy theories and other antiscience activities.
