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Article of the Day: 7 Things to Know about the Psychology of Calls to Action

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The most effective call-to-action techniques use basic psychology. You can use some of these psychology methods in your calls to action to turn visitors into repeat customers. For example, let’s say you just read about an online tool that can make your business run faster and increase productivity. Who doesn’t want that? So you go to …

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Study Examines State of Social, Personality Psychology Research

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Is the quality and overall state of social and personality research “rotten to the core,” as has been debated by psychologists in recent years? The answer is no, according to University of Illinois at Chicago researchers who conducted two studies to examine how practices have changed, if at all. In one study, the UIC researchers …

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Health Council to Hold Hearings on the Scope of Psychologists’ Practice

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The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) is poised to begin public consultation on a contentious set of regulations aimed at defining the scope of practice of psychologists. Nonclinical psychologists say the regulations are so narrowly defined, they stop them from providing legitimate services. To add to their woes, some medical schemes have interpreted the …

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Article of the Day: The Psychology of Foraging

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Psychologists have been studying visual search in the lab for decades, in order to understand how we might have developed real-world ‘foraging’ behaviour. But just how similar are the two? One of the big questions in vision research over the past 40 years has asked how we effectively search around our visual environment. Search is …

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Article of the Day: Fear of Death Affects Human Attitudes Toward Animal Life

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New insights may help scientists better understand the psychological motivations behind the murder and genocide of humans, says UA researcher Uri Lifshin, who has just co-authored findings published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. When reminded of death, humans become more likely to support killing animals, regardless of their existing attitudes about animal rights, …

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Article of the Day: 7 Things to Know about the Psychology of Calls to Action

Health Council to Hold Hearings on the Scope of Psychologists’ Practice

Article of the Day: The Psychology of Foraging

Article of the Day: Fear of Death Affects Human Attitudes Toward Animal Life

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