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  • Study: Unhappy New Marriages Usually Turn in to Happy Ones

    Study: Unhappy New Marriages Usually Turn in to Happy Ones0

    Valentine’s Day is all hearts and flowers and mushy goodness. In the midst of all this mushy goodness, it’s sometimes a relief to view the day through a lens of reality, such as the one displayed in the meme below: For many parents, that last point is far more realistic than most would like to

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  • Study: Too Many Jobs are Demanding Unnecessary College Degrees

    Study: Too Many Jobs are Demanding Unnecessary College Degrees0

    We’ve probably all known some young person who has gone to college, successfully earned his degree… and then ended up with an entry-level position in an office. It’s a bit disappointing, particularly if that same student racked up thousands of dollars in debt in order to do so. Unfortunately, this scenario appears to be a

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  • Study: Those Participation Trophies Aren’t Doing Kids Any Good

    Study: Those Participation Trophies Aren’t Doing Kids Any Good0

    The millennial generation has accumulated a number of different names, one of the most scathing being the “participation trophy” generation. The name gives a nod to the consolation prizes which have long sought to boost the self-esteem of children unable to land a first, second, or third place trophy. Unearned praise, we seem to have

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  • Study: The Surprising Connection Between Your Politics and Happiness

    Study: The Surprising Connection Between Your Politics and Happiness3

    Do your politics determine—or at least predict—your mental health? Recent research indicates that the answer is “yes.” A study published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology found a correlation between agreement with social justice mantras (colloquially referred to as “wokeness”) and depression, anxiety, and lack of happiness. As reported by the New York Post, researchers

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  • Study: Textbooks Are Super Biased

    Study: Textbooks Are Super Biased0

    Unless I miss my guess, many of us have never been huge fans of textbooks. They’re boring. Impersonal. And as a new study published in Current Psychology reports, textbooks may also be… biased. Researchers Christopher Ferguson, Jeffrey Brown, and Amanda Torres set out to explore this bias specifically in regard to the basic psychology textbooks

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  • Study: Teens With Very Conservative Parents Most Likely to Have Excellent Mental Health

    Study: Teens With Very Conservative Parents Most Likely to Have Excellent Mental Health8

    Adolescents who have “very conservative” parents are 16 to 17 percent more likely to have good or excellent mental health compared to teenagers with liberal parents, according to new research by Gallup. The fascinating finding was made in June 2023 and features in a comprehensive report published last month by the independent, non-partisan Institute for

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