Psychology
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People who stay in touch with old friends after moving away aren’t necessarily more loyal — they may…
The friendships that survive a move rarely survive on feeling alone.
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Psychology
What’s really driving the way people speak, react, and respond.
Psychology
Adults who keep working into their late sixties often aren’t afraid of retirement…
Teresa Amabile spent a decade at Harvard Business School interviewing 120 people about how they left work behind.
Psychology
People who return to part-time work after claiming Social Security early may not be…
Retirement is not always a clean switch from worker to nonworker.
Psychology
People who need a full day alone after seeing close friends aren’t necessarily…
By any honest measure, they're the ones who make life feel like a life.
Psychology
The hardest part of leaving a long relationship often isn’t missing the person —…
The finding is correlational, not causal, and it's specific to a clinical population.
Psychology
Adults who struggle to accept compliments often aren’t modest — they may have…
The compliment was about the dress.
Psychology
The people who seem most composed during a family crisis often aren’t calm — they…
The most composed person in a family crisis is not necessarily the calmest person in the room.
Psychology
Adults who over-explain simple decisions often aren’t insecure — they may have…
A trellis exists because a plant learned, early, that gravity was hostile.
Psychology
People who apologise for taking up space in conversations often aren’t shy — they…
Approximately 5.4 million children in the United States are currently caregiving for family members.
Psychology
Researchers at MIT engineered a cement whose carbon network conducts electricity…
For most of human history, the walls of a building have done one job: hold the roof up.