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fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

The Risks of Labeling Brain Injury

In the 1980s, one of my psychology professors at the University of Toronto advocated against using labels for psychological or psychiatric diagnoses. "Why not?" I questioned. "How else will we know what illness they have? Labels being bad sounds like psychological mumbo jumbo." By the end of that school year, I understood how labels stigmatize and limit recovery. Humans use labels to distinguish between themselves and those not like them.
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fromFast Company
1 month ago

TikTok claims there's a hack to get bigger portions at Chipotle: Put men's names on your orders

Takeout orders from fast-casual chains may have portion size biases based on the gender connotations of names used for ordering.
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