psychology
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Good news for climate activists: Marching might work
A new study found that climate marches make bystanders more optimistic about taking collective action.
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‘I had a meatmare’: Why flesh haunts the dreams of vegetarians
Why do those who've sworn off meat fear chicken sandwiches in their sleep? An investigation.
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Depressed about climate change? There’s a 9-step program for that.
It's modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Anxious, depressed, distracted — what if the cure is just outside?
Author Florence Williams talks trees, cities, and creativity in her new book "The Nature Fix."
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Advertising to kids isn’t good, it’s grrreat!
A bit of marketing from Brian Broccoli and Suzy Sweetpea drives kids to the salad bar.
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The neuroscience of why the GOP is like that
Here's Chris Mooney, who has made it his mission to chronicle and then explain why the GOP is resolutely anti-science, summing up his life's work rather succinctly.
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80 percent of humans are delusionally optimistic, says science
Maybe the reason we can't do anything about the existential crisis of climate change -- or, indeed, any of the other existential crises we're facing at present -- is that 80 percent of humanity has what's known as an "optimism bias."
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Don’t hate the player: How fun and games can encourage sustainable choices
Guilt trips and penalties don't always work to change behavior. What if we make it more fun to do the right thing?
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The frog and the polar bear: The real reasons Americans aren’t buying climate change
As international leaders trek home from Durban, South Africa, after a week of plotting the world’s response to global warming, the debate rages here at home — over whether Americans even care. The New York Times ran a story in October headlined, “Where did global warming go?” that cited polls suggesting that Americans had lost […]