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Language anxiety

Language anxiety: the limbic-system science behind 'I freeze when I have to speak'

Critical period

The critical-period myth: what 50 years of research actually says about adult language learning

Mind

Language anxiety

Last update: May 11•

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Language anxiety: the limbic-system science behind 'I freeze when I have to speak'

Bilingualism

Last update: May 8•

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Inside the bilingual brain: 30 years of MRI evidence on what two languages do to you

Foreign accent syndrome

Last update: Apr 28•

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Foreign accent syndrome: what a rare disorder reveals about how the brain maps sound

Behavior

Marshmallow test

Last update: May 6•

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The marshmallow test: how a famous study lost its punchline

Bystander effect

Last update: May 5•

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The bystander effect: what the original studies showed, and what the replications didn't

Habits

Last update: Apr 25•

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Habit formation: how long it actually takes to make a behavior automatic

Relationships

Accent

Last update: Apr 30•

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Romance across accents: what the studies say about fluency, vulnerability, and attraction

Bilingual couples

Last update: Apr 23•

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Bilingual couples: which language do you fight in?

Attachment theory

Last update: Apr 11•

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Attachment theory: forty years of research and its critics

The Tessera Brief

Self

Critical period

Last update: May 10•

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The critical-period myth: what 50 years of research actually says about adult language learning

Code switching

Last update: May 7•

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Code-switching and identity: longitudinal research on bilingual selves

Self-compassion

Last update: Apr 22•

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Self-compassion: what 20 years of research has and hasn't supported

Science

Memory consolidation

Last update: May 4•

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Memory consolidation: what one night of sleep does for newly-learned anything

Dunning kruger

Last update: May 3•

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The Dunning-Kruger graph that wasn't

Replication crisis

Last update: Apr 21•

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The replication crisis: what 2015 changed in psychology

Wellbeing

Cognitive reserve

Last update: May 2•

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Bilingualism and aging: the 60-year story of cognitive reserve

Loneliness

Last update: May 1•

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Loneliness research has had a methodology problem since 1978

Cbt

Last update: Apr 20•

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Cognitive behavioral therapy: what 50 years of evidence has and hasn't proved

Work

Ultradian rhythms

Last update: May 9•

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Ultradian rhythms: the case for 90-minute work cycles, examined

Flow state

Last update: Apr 27•

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Flow state research: what the operational definition actually requires

Remote work

Last update: Apr 19•

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Remote work and productivity: five years of evidence after the great experiment

Culture

Immigration

Last update: Apr 29•

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How immigrant brains rewire over the first 24 months: fMRI evidence

Polyglot

Last update: Apr 18•

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Polyglots in history: what makes some people speak twenty languages

Language death

Last update: Mar 29•

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Globalization and language death: a planet of 7,000 tongues, half of them going