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People Don't Know When They're Being Jerks
By Stephanie Pappas published
Compared to other self-knowledge, people are bad at knowing when they're being rude.
Angry People Think They’re Smarter Than They Are
By Kimberly Hickok published
Is Oscar the Grouch as smart as he thinks he is?
Separated Migrant Children Face Lasting Psychological Trauma
By Yasemin Saplakoglu published
How can the absence of hugs and comforting from their parents affect children?
Meet 'Norman,' the Darkest, Most Disturbed AI the World Has Ever Seen
By Mindy Weisberger published
A team of computer programmers trained a neural network to be a "psychopath." What could possibly go wrong?
Why It's So Hard to #DeleteFacebook
By S. Shyam Sundar published
Here we go again: another Facebook controversy, yet again violating our sense of privacy by letting others harvest our personal information.
Psychologists Have a Plan to Fix the Broken Science of Psychology
By Rafi Letzter published
Psychologists have known that something was wrong with their field since at least 2011. Now, there's a real plan to fix things, and it seems to be working.
These Personality Traits Could Put You At Risk for Social Media Addiction
By Rachael Rettner published
Whether it's scrolling through Instagram or constantly refreshing your Facebook feed, social media can eat up hours of your day.
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