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Study: How Childhood Abuse Impacts Adult Interactions New York University psychologists have shown that adults may have difficulties meeting someone who reminds them of a parent who emotionally or physically abused them as children. In the study, published in the November issue of Personality and Social Psych... Continue reading Study: How Childhood Abuse Impacts Adult Interactions
Belief In Status Quo Helps Some Shirk Social Responsibility Life's not fair. For some kids, the old parental adage only becomes truer with time as they become aware of worldwide inequities in areas such as hunger, education, gender, healthcare. Others, it seems, have an easier time accepting the status quo as fair ... Continue reading Belief In Status Quo Helps Some Shirk Social Responsibility
Observing Actions May Create False Memories Researchers already knew that imagining an event may later on result in “remembering†it. But now they have found that incidents like these can be explained by another phenomena in which false memories are created simply be seeing someone else do something. Continue reading Observing Actions May Create False Memories |
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