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Some people are just difficult. Here’s how to handle them
The New York Times

Some people are just difficult. Here’s how to handle them

Adam Grant of the Wharton School recommends a book, “The Asshole Survival Guide,” as an actionable method for dealing with difficult colleagues and managers.

How to train our brains’ value systems
Psychology Today

How to train our brains’ value systems

In her book “What We Value,” Emily Falk of the Annenberg School for Communication examines the mechanics and real-life implications of training the brain to create value systems and make subsequent calculations.

Fine art and design using artificial intelligence
Jessica Mach standing outside with her arm resting on a low brick wall

Mach is majoring in psychology and design in the College of Arts and Sciences. 

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Fine art and design using artificial intelligence

Through the design course Artificial Intelligence in Art, second-year Jessica Mach has discovered AI's potential through creating several projects, including a video story and an interactive game.

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Laughing gas: An old drug’s new trick to fight depression
A laughing gas mask hovering over a patient’s perspective.

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Laughing gas: An old drug’s new trick to fight depression

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine have uncovered how nitrous oxide, an anesthetic used worldwide since the 19th century, could help lift mood fast in people with depression that resists other treatments.

From Penn Medicine News

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The origin of community-based mental health treatment
Psychology Today

The origin of community-based mental health treatment

Yvette Sheline of the Perelman School of Medicine writes about the historical evolution of mental health treatment, from asylum to state hospital to deinstitutionalization.

An artist’s immersion into neuroaesthetics
Psychology Today

An artist’s immersion into neuroaesthetics

Judith Schaechter recounts her experience working on a stained-glass project as artist-in-residence at the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, helmed by Anjan Chatterjee of the Perelman School of Medicine.