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    Dr Christian Jarrett is a cognitive neuroscientist turned science writer and author. He is the Senior Editor for Psyche, the new wellbeing site coming soon from Aeon magazine, and formerly Founding Editor and creator of the British Psychological Society's Research Digest blog and first ever staff journalist on the Society's magazine, The Psychologist.

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