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Aug 15
The people who succeed without sacrificing happiness rarely have more willpower
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Aug 15
The hidden resentments long-term partners carry tend to gather in two predictable places
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Aug 14
Psychology says people who age visibly well aren't usually vain or obsessed with appearance
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Aug 14
In 1901, a schoolteacher in Rome named Maria Montessori noticed that children in her observation classroom would repeat…
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Aug 14
In 1922, Howard Carter's team lifted a sealed alabaster jar from Tutankhamun's tomb and found paint pigments still…
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Aug 14
The signs said to prove your adult child merely tolerates you tend to be normal, not damning
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Aug 14
The simple habits of people who love their lives are less about mood tricks than about how they spend two things
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Aug 14
Beating yourself up is not the secret motivator it is sold as, but two kinds of negative self-talk help
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Aug 14
A 2025 University of Toronto study found that actively trying to make yourself happier can paradoxically undermine the…
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Aug 14
Parents who constantly tell a child “you’re so smart” may be building a surprisingly fragile kind of confidence
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Aug 13
In 1990, just 3% of Americans said they had no close friends outside their family
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Aug 13
In 1903, cousins Edwin Binney and C
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Aug 13
When a child rolls a ball of air-dry clay too thin at the edges and thick in the middle, the outer rim loses water…
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Aug 12
Researchers comparing problematic and non-problematic teen phone users found the difference had less to do with how…
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Aug 12
The choices we all end up regretting are more predictable than they feel
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Aug 12
The relief in hearing you don't owe anyone an explanation is real, but the more useful discovery is why we feel we do
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Aug 12
The fear that distance erodes a relationship gets the research backwards
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Aug 11
The advice to choose hobbies that make you wake up excited is right, with two catches
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Aug 11
Being blase about money can feel like calm wisdom, but the research suggests it is often avoidance in disguise
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Aug 11
The quietest struggles of getting older are often the ones we misread
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