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The claim that self-approval beats popularity sounds like a fridge magnet, but the research on where self-worth comes from is unusually pointed: staking it...

Self-approval beats popularity reads like a motivational slogan, the kind of line that is easy to nod at and then ignore. The psychology behind it is more specific, and more useful, than the phrasing suggests. The point is not...

Psychology says people who carry one mug to the kitchen instead of waiting to carry four aren’t tidy or impatient — they’re spending real...

It looks like the least efficient way to clear a table. One mug, one trip, back and forth, when waiting five more minutes would let the same person carry all four at once and cut the total number of trips...

A meta-analysis of 138 experiments found that tracking progress significantly improves goal achievement — and the effect becomes stronger when that progress is recorded...

Goals usually begin in the future tense: finish the proposal, save the deposit, train three times a week. Progress exists in the present tense. It asks a less inspiring but more useful question: what has actually happened since the...

GeoComply Extends Partnership with FanDuel to Deliver Tech Worthy of Trust

GeoComply is extending its partnership with FanDuel Group, a mobile gaming company based in the United States. Founded in Vancouver in 2011 by Anna Sainsbury and David Briggs, GeoComply offers a digital identity platform and trust engine that can detect...

UBC Researchers Are Turning B.C. Wood Waste into a Post-Plastic Opportunity

British Columbia has no shortage of wood—but much of what is harvested never reaches a mill. At the same time, industries worldwide are searching for practical alternatives to petroleum-based plastics. Researchers at the University of British Columbia believe these two...

Canva wipes $11 billion from its valuation, putting IPO plans in doubt

Two of Canva’s earliest and largest local backers, Blackbird and Airtree recently ran the ruler over the design platform once again, with external valuers marking it down 17% to US$34.9B (c. A$49B). Blackbird partner Rick Baker said the VCs updated...

Hotels customer acquisition platform Visaible.ai finds room for $1 million

The round was led by Blacksheep Capital. The capital will be used to build out an end-to-end agentic automation and expand into the US, UK and Europe. expand a software platform to help hotels drive bookings through, AI queries. The...

Psychology says people who double-check the door is locked (even when they know it is) aren’t anxious or forgetful — they’re wired for a...

You locked it. You watched your own hand turn the key. You’re halfway down the path. And you go back and try the handle anyway. If that’s you, someone in your life has probably teased you about it. Maybe you’ve teased...

Psychology says the most magnetic people aren’t charming or funny or successful — they’re the ones who make you feel like you can stop...

Think about the last party where you actually had a good time. Chances are it wasn’t the person with the best stories who made it good. It was the one you ended up next to in the kitchen, the one...

Waking up early and feeling refreshed is less a matter of willpower than of working with your body clock: research on chronotypes and on...

The internet is full of advice to join the five o’clock club and become a morning person through sheer discipline, as though the only thing standing between you and a refreshed dawn is weakness of will. The science of...
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