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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Young people’s perfectionism is manifested as concern over their competence and fear of making mistakes. A new study among ninth-graders attending lower secondary school in Swedish-speaking areas of Finland identified four perfectionistic profiles with varying associations with students’ psychological well-being. The study was conducted in collaboration between the University of Eastern … Read more

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A recent study at the Hebrew University examines the impact of memorial days in Israel on national unity amidst political polarization. The study led by Dr. Tamar Gur and team, under the guidance of Professor Eran Halperin from the Psychology Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, delves into the profound … Read more

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A quarrel with a co-worker, task overload, a difficult relationship with the boss; each of us reacts slightly differently to problematic events in our professional lives. Such events often result in decreased work motivation and engagement. How important is our own bank of positive resources, called PsyCap, in all this? Are … Read more

Credit: CC0 Public Domain When a family or group of friends sit down to play a familiar game they’ve played many times before, they generally don’t need to refer to the rules—unless someone breaks them. The values of liberal democracy have been transgressed in numerous forms in the last decade, yet many are unfamiliar with … Read more

Texas A&M researchers are designing reflectors that redirect solar power to the moon’s craters. Credit: Texas A&M Engineering Near the moon’s south pole lies a 13-mile wide, 2.5-mile-deep crater known as Shackleton, named for Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. Shackleton—and craters like it—may contain untapped resources that can be accessed with lunar mining. Solar energy is … Read more

In the past week, weather authorities across the U.S. reported more than 100 tornadoes across the central and southern parts of the country, destroying dozens of homes and buildings from Oklahoma to Nebraska and Iowa. In Oklahoma, where a tornado touched down in the middle of the night, severe thunderstorms and high winds resulted in … Read more

Fusicoccane diterpenoids and overview of current study. a, Representative members of fusicoccane diterpenoid family and their biological activities. b, Bioactivity of cotylenin A (1) and cotylenol (3) as modulators of 14-3-3 protein–protein interaction, illustrated by ternary complex formation between 3, 14-3-3 and a model peptide of one of its client proteins, TASK3 (PDB ID 3SP5). … Read more

GPL, building 100. Left: Room B (context 6). A passage in wall W1352 between rooms B and C. When the floor was raised in stratum 10/IX, the passage was canceled and filled. A whole skeleton of a bat was found inside the fill of the passage, dated as RTD 10722. Right top: Room B (context … Read more