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• ‘Honestly, he kind of sucks’: trash-talking can feel great but is it really bad for you?

  04-12-2023 20:32
  
  Venting can help us bond, but it can also leave a sour taste in your mouth – where is the line, and why do we love doing it?It’s a rush to realize you dislike the same person as someone else. There’s a delicate, intoxicating dance: throwing out oblique criticisms and prowling around the edges until one person takes the leap and bravely says: “Honestly, they kind of suck.”Soaking up the golden rays of your rightness and another’s wrongness can feel exhilarating
  
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• Lacking Counselors, U.S. Schools Turn to the Business of Online Therapy

  04-12-2023 06:52 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: ABC News - HealthAt least 16 of the 20 largest U.S. public school districts are offering online therapy sessions to millions of students, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. In those districts alone, schools have signed provider contracts worth more than $70 million. This trend reflects a booming new business born from America's youth mental health crisis, which has proven so lucrative that venture capitalists are now funding school teletherapy...
  
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• How Climate Change Is Making the World Sick

  04-12-2023 06:52 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: U.S. News and World ReportHeat stress. Lung damage from wildfire smoke. The spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes into new regions as temperatures rise. These are just a few ways that public health is harmed by climate change, a focus for the first time ever at the annual U.N. climate summit. From 2030, experts expect that just four of these threats—malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and heat stress—will add 250,000 global deaths per year, according to the World Health...
  
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