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  • 13 Aug 2025
    Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron, Steven Zhou

    From First Job to Career: Why Your First Job Doesn’t Have to Define You

    What was your very first “real” job? Maybe it came after high school or college, or maybe it came long before that. Maybe it aligned with your academic degree or credentials exactly, or, perhaps, it looked nothing like the work for which you thought you were preparing. For many of us, the transition into the […]

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  • 31 May 2025
    Ahlam Lee

    Rethinking Competition: A Fresh Perspective on Its Role in Society

    We frequently engage in competition—whether as participants or facilitators—across various contexts, often without conscious awareness or even while denying its presence. While competition is traditionally associated with familiar arenas such as the job market, sports, and college admissions, its influence extends far beyond these settings. It is present in democratic elections, where voters indirectly drive […]

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  • 21 Aug 2017
    Merim Bilalić

    Cambridge Author Predicts Mayweather vs McGregor Using Neuroscience

    Merim Bilalić author of The Neuroscience of Expertise analyses the up and coming richest boxing match in history and predicts the outcome using neuroscience theory.

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  • 15 Jun 2017
    Maarten Derksen

    How to be Irresistible

    Originally posted on Tact Technology In commercials for AXE deodorant, popular with adolescent boys, its qualities are always advertised in roughly the same way: by showing that a man – however unattractive – becomes irresistible to women when he smells of AXE. This modern variation on the love potion illustrates the kind of fantasy of control […]

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  • 19 Dec 2016
    Applied Psychology
    E. Scott Geller

    Applied Psychology: Actively caring for people

    Blog post written by Scott Geller, Editor and Co-Author Some have suggested B. F. Skinner was a dreamer, authoring the book Walden II about a utopian society in which everyone lives ideal interdependent lives (Skinner, 1948). I have also been called a dreamer by many in the behavioral science community because of the 4.5 decades of […]

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