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Author Malcolm Gladwell captivated a sold-out crowd in First Parish Church last night for over an hour with the story of a single plane crash. He opened by asking how many listeners would be flying in the next month. When most hands went up, he said, �...
It’s long been said that laughter is contagious, and now, it turns out, so is happiness. Happiness is not an individual but a collective phenomenon, according to a new study released online Thursday in the British Medical Journal. The study, which followed almost 5,000 people over...
The study, which was authored by Columbia University psychology professor Carlos Blanco, found that 45.8 percent of college students and 47.7 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds who do not attend college have at least one disorder.
But Joseph Glenmullen, a former Harvard Clinical instructor in psychology, questioned the study’s findings, saying that the broadness of current diagnostic criteria for psychiatric disorders may inflate the number of people who actually have these disorders.
Psychology professor Steven Pinker addressed the role of language in studying human nature in front of a crowded room at Sherman Fairchild Hall yesterday evening. Pinker’s lecture, the fifth in an informal seminar series hosted by the Harvard Society for Mind, Brain, and Behavior (HSMBB), centered on...