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Dinner and a movie. Bowling. Hiking. A cup of coffee. There are so many options for where to go for a first date. But each of them comes with the worry: Is this going to […]

Few tasks are more dreaded than delivering negative feedback.This post was originally published on this site

Cities and communities that host major women’s sporting events can reap wide-ranging benefits, including tourism and economic growth as well as positive gender-related impacts, according to new research by the University of South Australia published […]

An analysis in Business Strategy and the Environment reveals that among U.S. firms, those with stronger LGBTQ+ inclusion have higher environmental performance scores and greater renewable energy consumption.This post was originally published on this site

Research shows that early childhood maltreatment is associated with significant delays in social and cognitive development. Unfortunately, according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, children under age one face the highest […]

A paper by a psychologist at the University of Kansas examines how language shapes our emotional experience of the world.This post was originally published on this site

Does the decision to leave the country unite or divide migrant families? A study by Polish researchers shows how parents and their adult children jointly build narratives about their lives in Germany—sometimes harmoniously, sometimes with […]

A new study published in JMIR Serious Games reveals that playing the open-world video game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and watching Studio Ghibli films can significantly improve young people’s overall happiness […]

Reading a Grimm fairy tale like “Hansel and Gretel” or “Little Red Riding Hood” may mitigate the negative effects of browsing the internet by creating resilience and brightening one’s outlook on life, according to a […]

In 1917, Sigmund Freud described three “narcissistic insults” that had been caused by science. These were moments of scientific breakthrough that showed humans that we are not as special as we once believed.This post was […]