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Experts Discuss The Psychology of Cult TV Shows - Consider the Following
Saturday at WonderCon 2014, a group of psychologists, and one psychologist-in-training, held a panel to discuss why cult TV shows really speak to us geeks. The panel included licensed therapist Josué...
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Study Shows “Pinocchio” Won’t Help Your Kid Handle The Truth - Or whales.
Of all the moralistic fables told to kids to encourage honesty, “Pinocchio” is one of the weirdest, and possibly the least effective. A team of child psychologists recently studied the influence...
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Facebook Secretly Used 689,003 People for a Psychological Experiment...
[Update] More information is coming out about the study, its methods, and the organizations involved that call into question not just the ethics, but the legality of the study. You can read the new...
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Things We Saw Today: Things Get Freaky In First American Horror Story S4 Cast...
Those looking forward to American Horror Story: Freak Show have only until October 8th to wait. I should catch up on AHS, right? I feel like I should. (via Variety) Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley gave...
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Brain Orgasms, Spidey Sense, and Bob Ross: A Look Inside The World Of ASMR -...
If you’d told me in 2013 that Reddit and YouTube would soon become my sites of choice when passing out in front of a lava-hot monitor at night, I wouldn’t have believed you. But since discovering the...
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The Psychology of Inspirational Women: Storm - Even our heroes are scared of...
This is the first in our new Psychology of Inspirational Women series, in which Licensed Clinical Psychologist Dr. Janina Scarlet talks us through the mindset of our favorite female characters. One of...
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Dealing With Anxiety: Psychology Lessons from Harry Potter
The following was originally posted on Dr. Scarlet’s blog, Superhero Therapy, and has been republished here with permission. It contains spoilers for Harry Potter. You can also check out Dr. Scarlet’s...
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The Psychology of Inspirational Women: Korra
Welcome to our Psychology of Inspirational Women series, in which Licensed Clinical Psychologist Dr. Janina Scarlet talks us through the mindset of our favorite female characters. Spoilers for the...
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How League of Legends Uses Colors To Affect Players’ Behavior - Everything is...
Even if you’ve never launched your own summoner into battle for another team’s nexus, you’ve probably heard about Riot Games’ constant efforts to make League of Legends a more civil and welcoming...
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The Psychology of Inspirational Women: The Walking Dead’s Michonne And Carol
Welcome to our Psychology of Inspirational Women series, in which Licensed Clinical Psychologist Dr. Janina Scarlet talks us through the mindset of our favorite female characters. Spoilers for The...
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Depression: Psychology Lessons from Harry Potter
“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it” Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire The following was originally posted on Dr. Scarlet’s blog, Superhero...
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The Psychology of Inspirational Women: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Welcome to our Psychology of Inspirational Women series, in which Licensed Clinical Psychologist Dr. Janina Scarlet talks us through the mindset of our favorite female characters. Spoilers for Buffy...
View ArticleBrainCraft Looks at Four Lesser-Known Scientific Discoveries (and the Rad...
Go forth and wow everyone with your knowledge of achievements made by women in psychology, neuroscience, and biology! (via Friend of the Mary Sue Glen Tickle) Are you following The Mary Sue on...
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The Psychology of Inspirational Women: Katniss Everdeen
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The Psychology of Inspirational Women: Black Canary (Laurel Lance)
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The Psychology of Inspirational Women: Grimm’s Juliette Silverton
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The Psychology of Inspirational Women: Veronica Mars
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Psychologist Agrees Inside Out Nails the Science of Feels, Emotions, and...
According to Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at University of California, Berkeley, Pixar accurately portrayed what the emotional state of an eleven year old may look like. Keltner served as a...
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The Mary Sue Exclusive: Mairghread Scott on Respectfully Depicting Sexual...
[Trigger Warning for discussion of rape and sexual assault.] If you’re a regular Mary Sue reader, you know that we frequently critique the way violence against women is depicted in media. It’s not...
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The Psychology of Inspirational Women: X-Men’s Jean Grey
I’m always Jean. And I’m always the Phoenix. I died. I scattered in a trillion directions. And then started to pull together again, outside the White Hot Room. But I’m starting to see now. Parts of...
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