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Lauren Aaronson

Therapy: The Perfect Fit
Questions you can, and should, ask a therapist before therapy.
Job Hunt: Check Your Mindset
Looking for a job? Think positive, do your homework and be wary of lowball offers from family and friends.
Fooling Your Appetite
How to change your everyday environment so that it encourages healthy eating and exercise habits.
Antioxidant Alarm Bells
A new study suggests that antioxidants may not be as beneficial as previously thought, but experts question the results.
Wagging Tongues
PT reviews three books on communication for parents: Why Girls Talk, Why Boys Don't Talk, and If Dogs Could Talk; compares the three styles.
Dress Like a Winner
Sports psychologist Iain Greenlees shows how appearance is half the battle when it comes to winning.
Morality Play
Kids who imitate their mothers may develop a better sense of conscience. A child's sense of conscience depends on how well she mimicked her mother at age 1.
Inside the Heads of the Rich and Famous
Psychologist William Todd Schultz examines how to use psychological theory to analyze the inner lives of dearly departed historical figures.
Self-fulfilling Prophecies
Expectations of stereotypes will come to pass if people believe in them.
Whine Connoisseurs
Whining may be even more attention-grabbing than a loud table saw. But there may be an evolutionary reason for those annoying tones.
Rhythm and Blues
Speech rate and voice pitch are depression indicators and can be monitored to track a patient's progress.
The Long Arm of Divorce
Grandchildren of divorced couples don't always have it easy. Some end up less educated and find themselves in turbulent marriages.
Clues in Cadence
Why do adults automatically coo at a little baby? It may be an instinct that evolved to teach newborns language.
Scheduling Your Next Emergency
People do have control over their visits to the ER, especially when there's something good on the tube.
A Taste of Genius
From avocadoes to zucchinis, diet is the new drug, as scientists discover that the benefits of foods go way beyond basic nutrition. It may be that your brain has the most to gain from what you eat.
Moral Combat: Emotion and Reason
The moral dilemma is an agonizing staple of philosophy classes. A study shows that its difficulty may be caused by a battle in the brain.
Friends Don't Pick Up On Anger
We often fail to detect concealed anger in close pals, but acquaintances spot it more readily.
The Mend of the Affair
Couples who are grappling with infidelity may benefit more from marital therapy than others -- provided that the cheating partner comes clean either before or during therapy.
Dieting: Allowing Shades of Gray
An all-or-nothing mind-set can be self-defeating. It sets up dieters to think of themselves as failures and thereby they regain lost pounds.
Language: My Spanish Side
Bilingual people display differing personality traits depending on which language they are speaking.

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