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Category: Psychology & The Mind

Psychology & The Mind Science!

“the conclusions of the SPE had been written in advance according to non-academic aims”

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Why is this interesting? is well worth subscribing to. This edition is, as always, interesting. Several of the classic phycology experiments weren’t as scientific as you’d have hoped. This is part of a much broader story of a “replication crisis” in psychology: The challenge of being completely unable to reproduce the results from some of […]

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Fun & Games Psychology & The Mind

Doing something you enjoy is good for your mental health

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Surprise: Playing video games can be good for your mental health, a study from Oxford University has suggested, following a breakthrough collaboration in which academics at the university worked with actual gameplay data for the first time. The study, which focused on players of Nintendo’s springtime craze Animal Crossing, as well as EA’s shooter Plants vs. […]

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Organisation & Planning Psychology & The Mind

Teamwork

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Interesting article about teamwork and personalities, it’s always been important but I think that the current all-remote-working situation in the IT industry has made it all the more essential: But even though teamwork is everywhere, we continue to train people — whether in education or in the workforce — for primarily individual and technical skills. […]

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