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Annie Murphy Paul
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Annie Murphy Paul

Annie Murphy Paul is a magazine journalist and book author who writes about the biological and social sciences. Born in Philadelphia, she graduated from Yale University and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A former senior editor at Psychology Today magazine, she was awarded the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Slate, Discover, Health, O: The Oprah Magazine, and many other publications. She is the author of Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives and The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are... Read full bio

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...better. Just about any excellent work of narrative art can transport us away from tedium and sorrow, as Annie Murphy Paul wrote in an excellent piece in the New York Times last year. Among other things, she described how scientific researchers, using...
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...If you're interested in the science of learning--truly a fascinating subject--check out the blog of my friend Annie Murphy Paul. So much terrific information on . Gretchen Rubin is the author of , a book and a blog about her adventures learning to be...
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Examiner.com, January 17, 2013
...E-mail * do not change Contact Email Contact Email2 Contact Url Subscribe to Blog Remember my Info Advertisement Annie Murphy Paul, on her The Brilliant BLOG, posted an article recently about the advantages of arguing over lecture. The...
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...be dedicated to an all-day New America Foundation series, the "Millennial Ideas Forum." New America Foundation fellow Annie Murphy Paul, author of Brilliant: The New Science of Smart, will give the keynote—perhaps the first-ever keynote address...
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...marital status, and this discussion was no different. The discourse first appeared on a blog that belongs to Annie Murphy Paul, a columnist and learning consultant who reported on a University of Georgia and Columbia University study that says girls get...
It Probably Won’t Make You Happy
Psychology Today, January 14, 2013
...If you're interested in the science of learning--truly a fascinating subject--check out the blog of my friend Annie Murphy Paul. So much terrific information on . Gretchen Rubin is the author of , a book and a blog about her adventures learning to be...
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Single Mothers Are To Blame For Sons' Poor Grades? Our Readers Weigh In
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...earlier this week, another discussion about single parenthood emerged in an unlikely place: the comments section on journalist Annie Murphy Paul's blog . Murphy Paul wrote about new research from the University of Georgia and Columbia University that...