The Psychological Benefits of Your Thanksgiving Rituals
When Americans gather together around a table groaning with favorite dishes on the fourth Thursday of November, what are we doing beyond filling our bellies with turkey and pie? Here, four experts in the psychology of family traditions discuss what ritual means in the context of Thanksgiving. Anne Fishel, psychologist and author of Home for…
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Self-Proclaimed Experts Often Claim To Know More Than They Really Do
Fifteen years ago, psychologists showed that the most incompetent people are the worst at recognizing their own incompetence, confirming what most of us already suspected. Now it turns out that even highly competent people may lay claim to more knowledge than they actually possess. In a set of studies published recently in Psychological Science, Stav…
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Melanie Tannenbaum
