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For some, it’s a feeling of being paralysed, numb, or heavy—when all you want to do is curl up in a ball and not move. It might includedark thoughts going round and round in a cycle, chest pain, orurges to cry. Whatever it is for you, feelings of despair and hopelessness can be really. "Feelings of hopelessness can come about for a range of different reasons–it can be a single difficult situation that sets you off in a spiral, or it could be a build up of many things over tim

You likely have heard the phrase "replication crisis." It refers to the grim fact that, in a number of fields of science, when researchers attempt to replicate previously published studies, they fairly often don't get the same results. The magnitude of the problem depends on the field, but in psychology, it seems that something like 40% of studies in top journals don't replicate. We've been tackling this crisis with our new Transparent Replications project, and this post expl

Try our new module, Uncover Your Guiding Principles, to build a list of your own personal principles that are grounded in what you truly...