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Why do people with hoarding disorder hoard, and how can we help?

25 Oct 2023

Addressing the emotional and behavioural drivers of hoarding through therapy is crucial. But sometimes, a harm-avoidance approach is best.

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Supermarket surveillance: why we dislike it and what stores should be doing

25 Oct 2023

A UNSW consumer psychologist says that supermarkets need to take a new approach to ease shopper frustrations.

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Decision-making mechanisms go awry in OCD brains: study

18 Oct 2023

The research sheds light on the biological basis of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

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Sneaky supermarket tricks to watch out for as cost of living soars

24 Jul 2023

How supermarkets are making consumers spend more money without them realising it. 

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Most people already think climate change is 'here and now', despite what we've been told

24 Apr 2023

Despite the popular and intuitive notion that people find climate change psychologically distant, a new review of the evidence shows that’s not the case at all.

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UNSW Sydney ranked among world’s best for 42 subjects

23 Mar 2023

The 2023 QS Subject Rankings placed 19 UNSW subjects in the top 50 worldwide and five at number one in Australia. 

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Understanding and reframing the fear of rejection

22 Jun 2022

Humans are programmed on an evolutionary level to fear social rejection, but we can learn to deal with it. 

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Warning: this video may cause side effects

10 Mar 2022

Is it possible that up to half the side effects reported in medical trials are all in people's heads? Is someone's expectation of a negative side effect strong enough to make it actually happen? And if so, how do medical researchers break this dangerous cycle?

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How can we get better at telling misinformation from reliable expert consensus?

15 Feb 2022

UNSW psychology researchers have shown how to better communicate key messages and avoid misinformation.

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How to stop fixating on the daily COVID numbers

04 Nov 2021

Why is it so hard to disengage from daily case numbers? What should you do if, like a car crash, you can’t look away?

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