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The Secret to Better Learning That Most People Don’t Know: Interleaving

Mixing up your learning can lead to massive gains, a new study of academic performance reveals.  For years now ‘interleaving’ has been a secret largely confined to researchers. Interleaving means practising or learning different skills in quick succession. When interleaving, tennis players might practice forehands, backhands and volleys altogether. Interleaving for musicians could mean practising …

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How To Read Personality From Online Profile Pictures

Social media profile pictures can reveal clues about personality, according to new research.  Thousands of Twitter user’s pictures were included in the study, along with an analysis of their personality. Here is how to spot each of the five aspects of personality: 1. Conscientiousness More conscientious people used pictures that were more natural, colourful and …

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What activities make us happiest? (I'm impressed that people stopped to answer the survey…)

A survey of tens of thousands of people conducted over five years has revealed the 33 activities that make people the happiest.At the top was making love, followed by concerts and the theatre, sport and gardening. To study everyday happiness, researchers created a smartphone app which ‘dinged’ at random points during the day to ask …

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One Minute Personality Tests – PsyBlog

The Big Five personality framework is well-validated across cultures and popular with researchers, although it's not as well known at the Myers Briggs. The five factors of personality that emerge with some consistency are Extroversion/introversion Neuroticism Agreeableness Conscientiousness Openness to experience Looking over this list, you can see why the Big Five hasn't caught on with …

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