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Your to-do list is a mile long, you’re deep into time-triage mode, and there’s just no way you can feel more productive. Sound familiar? There actually is one way: do something selfless. American researchers found that spending a few hours on something altruistic made people feel like they had more … Read More
Like to push back bedtime, even though you need to wake up early in the morning? Well, maybe stop doing that. The evidence suggests that it’s ruining your life. A study published in Cognitive Therapy and Research has found that people who both go to bed late and sleep too … Read More
In the spirit of opening up about mental health, here’s the thing about depression: you know how depressed people sometimes talk about a sinking feeling in their gut? It isn’t metaphorical, they’re actually feeling that. It hasn’t been a well-studied part of mental health, but a new study published in … Read More
Laid up in bed with an injury? Break out the pen and paper. A study published in the British Journal of Health Psychology found that people who wrote expressively healed from a biopsy faster than people who did not. Forty-nine older adults took part in the study; half of them … Read More
Studying a second language? Have a bunch of stuff to remember? Just want to improve your mental acuity in general? Here’s one solution: take a nap. A study published in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory has found that taking a short nap can help significantly help you retain learning. Researchers … Read More
