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Ensuring Fair Pay – How Wage Claim Laws Protect Workers

In the modern workforce, one of the key pillars ensuring a fair and equitable working environment is the protection afforded by wage claim laws. These laws serve as a critical safeguard, ensuring that employees receive the compensation they are legally entitled to. In a landscape where employment disputes can be complex, understanding how these laws […]

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Wharton Psychologist on How to Reach Your Potential: People ‘Really Underestimate the Slow Learners, the Late Bloomers’

Are you a formerly “gifted” kid, struggling to find success as an adult? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant may have a solution for you. Put simply: Instead of giving up when things don’t come naturally to you, start thinking like a “late bloomer.” “Natural talent is overrated,” Grant, a bestselling author and psychology professor at the University of

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Why We Click on Stuff We Know We Won’t Like

Why is there a deluge of divisive and negative content on social media? Is it simply that — despite what we’d prefer to think about ourselves — we like this kind of stuff? After all, research suggests that negativity — especially about our political opponents — is likeliest to go viral online. Maybe the basic explanation is that everyone

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White Faces Generated by AI Are More Convincing Than Photos, Finds Survey

It sounds like a scenario straight out of a Ridley Scott film: technology that not only sounds more “real” than actual humans, but looks more convincing, too. Yet it seems that moment has already arrived. A new study has found people are more likely to think pictures of white faces generated by AI are human

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Preregistering, Transparency, and Large Samples Boost Psychology Studies’ Replication Rate to Nearly 90%

For the past decade, psychology has been in the midst of a replication crisis. Large, high-profile studies have found that only about half of the findings from behavioral science literature can be replicated—a discovery that has cast a long shadow over psychological science, but that has also spurred advocates to push for improved research methods

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A Psychologist Explains Why Your Brain Loves Cheesy Holiday Movies

‘Tis the season for friends, family and cheesy holiday movies.  Whether you’re a fan of the Christmas classics or prefer the dozens of streamable and made-for-TV specials, experts say there’s a reason holiday-themed movies are so popular — even the most corny and predictable. In fact, this is part of what keeps us coming back, says Dr. Pamela Rutledge,

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Are AI Faces ‘More Human’ Than Real Ones? See if You Can Tell the Difference

Face the facts. AI-generated faces look more “real” than some humans, according to a new study — at least, when it comes to white people. Published in the Psychological Science journal this week, researchers found that AI could reliably fool people into thinking that computer-generated faces look more real than a photograph. “Remarkably, white AI faces can

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Substance-Use Stigma Impedes Treatment in Various Ways, Scientists Say

Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 24, Issue 2)Read the Full Text (PDF, HTML) Addiction is one of society’s most misunderstood and rebuked health conditions. That stigma discourages many people from seeking treatment for substance dependence, according to a new report published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 24, Issue 2). Research

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Feeling Lonely? Your Brain May Process the World Differently

The U.S. is in the midst of a loneliness epidemic. For a lot of people, the feeling is even more pronounced during the holidays. In addition to the emotional impact of chronic loneliness, it has some dramatic health consequences: increased risk of heart disease and stroke, infections, cancer, even death. Recent research also suggests that loneliness

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Which Is Better, Active Learning or Lecture? It’s Not So Simple.

Students whose STEM courses are taught using active learning perform better than those taught with traditional lectures. That was the top-line finding of a widely cited 2014 meta-analysis, and it has been borne out in many other studies since. While research suggests that lecturing remains the dominant form of STEM instruction, the studies on active learning have bolstered

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