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New therapy for kids with treatment-resistant behavioural problems has lasting results

24 Aug 2022

Children with callous unemotional traits can learn to be more prosocial, a study has shown.

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Why do we like to play violent video games?

02 Aug 2022

Researchers from UNSW Sydney help us understand why the genre is so popular.

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Giving out flowers on TikTok: is this a 'random act of kindness' or just benevolent ageism?

20 Jul 2022

When Maree was given flowers by a TikTok influencer, she felt ‘de-humanised’ and reduced to her age. Here is how benevolent ageism shows up in our society.

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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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Feeling unsettled about the climate? You might be experiencing eco-anxiety

07 Jun 2022

The reality of climate change has many people feeling uncertain about the environment and our future.

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UNSW neuroscientist receives an inaugural $1.35m Rebecca Cooper Fellowship

26 Apr 2022

Sylvia Gustin’s research will facilitate spinal cord injury cure and improve therapies for chronic pain.

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Windows to the soul: Pupils reveal 'aphantasia', the absence of visual imagination

20 Apr 2022

Picture this, if you will: Aphantasia can be detected with an eye-opening look into our pupils.

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The next COVID wave is here. Why for some of us it's OMG and for others it's meh

08 Apr 2022

More than two years into the pandemic the world is a very different place. But this only partly explains different people’s responses to COVID.

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Ageing gratefully: Older people summon more positivity in response to distress

28 Mar 2022

Psychologists find evidence that while ageing results in overall cognitive decline, we become better at positively reframing distressing episodes.

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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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