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In the arena of cognitive psychology, scientists typically devise laboratory tasks that have little to do with everyday life in order to test a theoretical model. Findings from such experiments help ...

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Mr. Watters is a journalist and author whose work focuses on psychiatry and social psychology. Most students in psychology and psychiatry programs today are too young to have any firsthand memory of ...