Behavior
Personality Type, as well as Politics, Predicts Who Shares Fake News
Highly impulsive people who lean conservative are more likely to share false news stories. They have a desire to create chaos and won’t be deterred by fact-checkers
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Behavior
Other People Don’t Think You’re a Mess
Individuals often overestimate how harshly others judge them. But self-compassion can help build a more balanced, healthy perspective
Cognition
People Who Jump to Conclusions Show Other Kinds of Thinking Errors
Belief in conspiracy theories and overconfidence are two tendencies linked to hasty thinking
Behavior
Discrimination Persists in Society—but Who Discriminates?
Is discriminatory behavior widely dispersed or highly concentrated in a small number of people?
Diversity
The Longer Short List Effect
How to increase the consideration of female candidates for male-gendered roles
Behavior
A New Way to Understand—and Possibly Treat—OCD
People with the disorder seem to have a more flexible “sense of self”
Psychology
Sometimes Mindlessness Is Better Than Mindfulness
In some situations, don’t pay so much attention
Mental Health
Psychiatry Needs to Get Right with God
By not making more of an effort to incorporate spirituality in treatment, we are doing a disservice to patients
Cognition
Pupil Size Is a Marker of Intelligence
There is a surprising correlation between baseline pupil size and several measures of cognitive ability
Cognition
Our Memory Is Even Better Than Experts Thought
In some respects, memory is poor. In others, it is astonishingly good
