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What Does It Mean? How To Rigorously Test Your Psychological Questions

Ever wonder about the method behind the madness (aka psychological science)? Our article walks you through some of the steps that go into testing, and re-testing, research questions. Spoiler alert: no one study can tell you all you need to know about a specific question!
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Is Happiness Feeling What’s “Right”?

Is happiness just about feeling good in the moment? Or is happiness also about feeling what’s “right”?
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The Costs of Emotion Regulation: Facing Harm as Vulnerable Individuals and Marginalized Communities

Emotion regulation is generally thought to be a good thing. However, there can be costs for excessive emotion regulation. This article addresses the negative consequences of emotion regulation and how vulnerable individuals and marginalized communities may be especially susceptible to these effects.
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Ouch: Understanding the Pain of Social Rejection

Rejection hurts. While we’d all like to avoid this feeling, broken bonds can be as bad for us as broken bones, if not worse. So while the pain of rejection is undesirable, it may actually be helping us effectively modify our behaviors to navigate the world around us.
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What is empathy?

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Social Cognition and Language

Humans and non-human animals alike have to process and respond to specific information about their social environments in order to navigate the social world. But language seems to shape how we process and respond to such information. So are certain forms of social cognition uniquely human?