Still afraid you’ll contract Ebola? Ever thought about how your city affects your happiness? What about reverse psychology–does that really work?

Read up on all this and more in this week’s Psychology Around the Net.

Quiz: How Does Your City Affect Your Happiness?: TIME has compiled 13 questions to help you determine if your city is contributing to or derailing your own happiness.

The Psychology Behind Our Collective Ebola Freak-Out: Are our extreme fears simply human nature?

How to Turn Your Anxiety Into a Productivity Booster: Check out these seven ways you can use anxiety to become more productive.

Getting Back Your Spark When Every Day Feels Hard: Have you found yourself living out your own version of Groundhog Day? Here are a few ways you can pull yourself out of it.

How to Plant Ideas in Someone’s Mind: Does reverse psychology actually work?

Unicef Ad About Violence Against Children Will Rip Out Your Heart [Video]: Every five minutes, a child dies as a result of violence. This ad reminds us there’s no vaccine; only us. Viewer discretion advised.

Do This One Thing Every Day to Get On the Fast Track to Success: Psychologists explain why procrastination feels so much better than completing some other dreaded task.

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    Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 22 Oct 2014
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