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The article discusses the aspects of superstitions, their historical grounds and benefits. Topics include the distinction between positive and negative superstitions, the lack of clarity in the difference between superstition, magical thinking and supernatural beliefs and the theory that superstitions are based on early intuitions about the world, which is linked to intuitive thinking.

The article presents reprints of articles "No reason to smile - Another modern psychology classic has failed to replicate", "Wisdom is more of a state than a trait" and "Whats it like to be a child and your sibling is diagnosed with cancer?", which appeared in the November 2016 issue of the "Reader's Digest." The article tackles about facial feedback hypothesis of psychologist William James, wisdom and parents support to a sick child, respectively.

The article offers information on a research conducted by Science, Christa Taylor of Albany State University on the creativity-mood disorder relationship. Topics discussed include the mood disorder in creative people, ways on measuring creativity like musical performance and divergent thinking tests, and the relationship of being creative and the mental disorder diagnosis such as depression.

The article reports on a research published in the journal "Nature Communications," which may explain the reasons why some people struggle to control their thoughts. Researcher Taylor Schmitz conducted the study at the lab of Michael Anderson at Cambridge's MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. The study used Think/No-Think paradigm to show that it is sometimes possible to suppress thoughts successfully.

The article focuses on a study, appeared in the periodical "Academy of Management Journal," regarding different and understandable reason that minority members are cautious about showing enthusiasm for increasing diversity in their career. It mentions that people rated higher for diversity-valuing behaviour were also rated higher for performance and competence. It also mentions that the study suggests other valid reasons for minority leaders to fear in helping other minority individuals.

The article offers information on the eating disorders along with its association with the person's understanding of what meaningful relationships should look like comprising a study by Emma Forsén Mantilla and her team from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. It includes information on the use of the narrative therapy by the psychologists to treat the people with eating disorders.

The author offers information on modern social psychology studies based on questionnaire data that ranges from Asch's conformity experiments to Milgram's research on obedience to authority and recent findings of professor Dariusz Doliński raise question of whether psychology is a science of behaviour. The author raises Doliński's worries that work of social psychologists who are doing the important work of field studies, are not given space in the best journals in their field.

The article provides information on the psychological research conducted by the researchers of Peking University, according to which drinking tea enhances creativity of mind.

The article discusses study of the effect of stereotype threat on performance considering the problems with publication bias according to a meta-analysis, with particular focus on a pre-print paper at PsyArXiv by Tom Stafford of the University of Sheffield. Stafford explored the domain of stereotype that include high pressure, clear success criterra and presupposition that chess is for men, showing different effects from laboratory studies as women appeared to perform bettern when playing men.

The article offers psychology-related research news briefs as of December 1, 2017, such as the impact of seeing rudeness in the morning on the mood throughout the day, the poor meta-cognitive awareness of shifts in own beliefs, and amplifying the benefits of placebo effect.

The article discusses the research conducted by researcher Elizabeth Campbell and her colleagues regarding workplace reactions to high performers and their polarising effect on people around them. It cites women who worked in a Taiwanese salons wherein they examine how the most successful stylists were treated by their peers by asking managers for performance ratings. It notes that hotshots experienced more negative treatment in the form of belittling and criticism.

The article presents several excerpts related to research on topics including the undeclared bias problem in psychotherapy research, the altruism research on toddlers, and the influence of parents in the negative attitude of teenagers towards immigrants.

The article focuses on the observation of American television host Stephen Colbert, regarding the morality of Americans when it comes to politics. Topics discussed include the concept of social projection, association of moral superiority and wellbeing and self-esteem, and the common moral traits such as competence and trustworthiness.