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July 9, 2021

Kids as young as five underestimate how much their peers like them

A striking paper in Psychological Science in 2018 revealed consistent evidence for the “liking gap” — that other people like us more than we think. Now, for the first time, researchers have looked at how this phenomenon arises during childhood.…

May 12, 2021

Here’s the best way to forgive and forget

By Emma Young If somebody else has treated you badly, what are the best strategies for overcoming this, and moving on? There has been, of course, an enormous amount of research in this field, in relation to everything from getting over…

April 15, 2021

We have a strong urge to find out what might have been – even when this leads to feelings of regret

Regret seems to be a fundamental part of the human experience. As James Baldwin wrote, “Though we would like to live without regrets, and sometimes proudly insist that we have none, this is not really possible, if only because we…