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Performance psychology trains the body, mind, and spirit to thrive in the face of any challenge. Ask any gold medalist.

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Dan Gottlieb has known the unkindness of strangers. In fact, he says he encounters it every day. "People turn away," he says. "They don't make eye contact. They pull their children away. They ...

Doctoring ten years ago, Ruth Marlin, M.D., wasn't feeling so hot. Constantly weak and tired, she visited countless doctors but no one knew what was wrong—nor had any ideas for helping her to get ...

Indeed, in 1999, Sam Gosling, then a graduate student in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, pulled from more than 100 potentially relevant reports on nonhuman animals—including ...

Do the chips that don't pass the lips of low-carb dieters weigh heavily on their shoulders instead? People who avoid certain foods or are reducing their food intake are famous for irritability, but ...

One morning back in the late 1990s, I was walking through the back streets of Drogheda, Ireland. The alleyways were strewn with litter. Amid the detritus, I spotted a tiny stuffed monkey, a casualty ...