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• What Behavioral Strategies Motivate Environmental Action?

  19-05-2025 16:09 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science Daily - Top SocietyMost people believe climate change is real, but not everyone takes action. To find effective ways to promote environmental protection, researchers held an "intervention tournament" in 2024 with 7,624 U.S. adults. The results, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggested that interventions targeting future thinking—such as writing a letter for a child to read in the future—are the most effective ways to motivate...
  
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• Canada Now Has a Minister of Artificial Intelligence. What Will He Do?

  19-05-2025 15:48 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Top Stories NewsCanada has its first-ever minister of artificial intelligence in newly elected Toronto Centre MP Evan Solomon. So, what exactly does that job entail? Solomon will likely have a massive job touching nearly every aspect of the economy, with national security considerations as well, according to a spokesperson from the prime minister's office. The prime minister, Mark Carney, has called for sweeping use of AI to create the "economy of the futu
  
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• Paris Unveils Memorial to LGBTQ Victims of Nazi Regime

  19-05-2025 15:33 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: CBS News - World NewsA memorial to long-ignored gay victims of the Nazi regime and to all LGBTQ+ people persecuted throughout history was unveiled Saturday in Paris. The monument, a massive steel star, is located at the heart of Paris in public gardens near the Bastille Plaza. It aims to fulfill a duty to remember and to fight discrimination, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said. The Nazi regime sent an estimated 5,000-15,000 people to concentration camps because they were...
  
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• I’ve been living each day as if it were my first – and the results amazed me | Emma Beddington

  19-05-2025 12:01
  From a disobedient dishwasher to a letter from the taxman, it turns out everything is more palatable with a sprinkling of childlike wonderReading about ways to foster joy last week (I know, most of us would settle for waking without lingering dread, but why not dream big occasionally?), I was captivated by the memoirist and cancer survivor Suleika Jaouad’s suggestion: live each day like it’s your first. When Jaouad’s leukaemia returned last year, well-wishers urged her to live
  
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