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  • Personality Scale

    Personality Scale

    This activity was inspired by a post on David Webb’s substack. David is the creator of the All About Psychology website, and I thank him for allowing me to recreate the content of his Substack post into this activity. You are welcome to host this activity on your own site. Download the two files below.

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  • “I’m Getting Old” — And That Thought Might Be Killing You

    “I’m Getting Old” — And That Thought Might Be Killing You

    Do you catch yourself saying “I’m getting old” more than you’d like to admit? Turns out, that habit might be doing more damage than you think. Psychologist Becca Levy of Yale has spent decades studying how our aging mindset — the beliefs we hold about what getting older actually means — shapes how we physically

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  • Levels of Processing Activity

    Levels of Processing Activity

    Levels of Processing: An Online Memory Activity Levels of Processing An Activity On How Your Memory Works You Are About to Run a Memory Study on Yourself Actors who memorize scripts don’t succeed by repeating lines over and over. Research shows they do something different: they focus on meaning. The deeper they process a line

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  • The Psych Files – Most Popular Episodes

    I’ll bet you’re looking for one of these episodes. They are my most popular and the ones that really make me proud (if you’re looking for some other previous episode/blog post on this site, please contact me at: mikrbritt at mac dot com):

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