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The Santa story has social benefits

Why you should spread the Santa story

How children and their families benefit psychologically from seasonal traditions

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Published in: Family & relationships, Society
Tags: Children, Family, Gratitude, Memory, Mental health, Wellbeing

Memories from our youth serve an important purpose

Why we remember our youth as one big hedonistic party

Our selective memories prioritise those exciting early memories

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Published in: Health
Tags: Memory, Wellbeing

For young children waiting is simply endless

Why kids genuinely can’t wait until Christmas

A child’s developing memory makes the world wondrous and slow, but an adult’s reliance on routine speeds everything up

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Published in: Learning & development
Tags: Children, Development, Memory

psychologists are looking at the feeling of home

Why there’s no place like home for the holidays

Can you love a place like you love people?

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Published in: Society
Tags: Emotion, Memory

How we think about our past experiences affects how we can help others

Beware rumination: it interferes with our ability to feel empathy for others

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Published in: Family & relationships, Learning & development
Tags: Memory, Relationships, Therapy, Treatment and therapies, Wellbeing

Smartphone apps can help with memory

Smartphone apps help those with brain injuries, and everyone else’s memory too

Research suggests apps simply free our minds to focus on other things - rather than making our memories lazier

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Published in: Health, Work & performance
Tags: Memory, Neuroscience, Research, Technology

Why you forget things you were sure you would remember

We are easily tricked into wrongly believing we will recall particular information

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Published in: Work & performance
Tags: Memory, Performance psychology

Nostalgia can be a source of strength

The psychological benefits – and trappings – of nostalgia

Reflecting on times past can help people cope with the present

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Published in: Health, Work & performance
Tags: Emotion, Memory, Wellbeing

Working memory

How you keep things ‘in mind’ over the short term

Working memory is central to our functioning but it ebbs and flows over our lifespan

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Published in: Work & performance
Tags: Memory, Performance psychology

What you can do to avoid Alzheimer’s Diseasevideo

Neuroscientist and author Lisa Genova on what research suggests we can do to keep dementia at bay

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Published in: Health
Tags: Brain, Dementia, Memory, Mental health

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