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No one said building a company is easy. But it's time to be honest about how brutal it really is -- and the price so many founders secretly pay.

More than 7,000 teenagers will pack the Eagle Bank Arena on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. Thursday, January 18 for the 10th annual Life is VERY Good Rally. The Catholic Diocese of Arlington’s Office of Youth, Campus and Young Adult Ministries sponsors the event, which attracts teens from across the country to prepare prayerfully for the March for Life
The event is a prelude to the March for Life on Friday, January 19.
Here are the details:
Where: Eagle…

It became legal for doctors to prescribe cannabis based drugs on 1 November. But who will be able to issue these products, for what conditions, and what’s the evidence? Nigel Hawkes reports
Only specialists, and they will be expected to get approval from the chair of their hospital’s drug and therapeutics committee, or the medical director, on a named patient basis. GPs cannot prescribe
NHS England lists just two: children with rare forms of epilepsy and adults with nausea or vomiting caused by…

Mental age is more in your control than you might think.

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There isn't a set recipe for raising successful kids, but psychology research points to a handful of factors that could help.

With video of a girl balancing in a tutu and a crowd cheering at a soccer game, one college professor uses the social media app to personalize concepts for his psychology students.

The biggest contributor to happiness might surprise you--and here's how to foster it.

The importance of using images goes beyond "looking nice" and is deeply psychological. Here are eight effective types of images, and where to find them.

A Columbia University psychiatry professor talks about what he's learned from trying the drug himself and studying it over the years.

By Leslie Goldman
As a boy, whenever Stephen Post got a bad grade, or felt left out of his older brother and sister's games, or was otherwise having a rough day, his mother always said, "Why don't you go out and do something for someone else?" At which point he'd head next door to rake Mr. Mueller's leaves or go across the street to help Mr. Lawrence with his boat. "I always came home feeling better," says Post, now a professor of preventive…

Financial and lending institutions—particularly those working to increase financial inclusion—are investigating how using psychology can boost saving.

When people want to believe that the world is just, and that bad things won’t happen to them, empathy can suffer.

Psychology, Mental Health and Higher Education by Dr. Lee Keyes

A hand flies into the air. I'm halfway through Psychology of Trauma, one of the courses I teach at the University of Oregon. Fifty students and I are cra...

In 2016, Americans' #1 fear was “corruption of government officials,” followed by terrorist attacks. Gun violence didn't make the top 10.

A how-to guide on the science behind learning to forgive

In the first in Mind Games, our new series on classic psychology experiments, we show you how to conduct the Stroop test, which looks at how language is processed