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Notoriously private, Dr. Fay Tang has rarely engaged with the media. So when she agreed to open her heart, her legacy, her struggles and her triumphs to me in a recent interview, I knew I was in for a treat. The interview’s premise was to discuss the big win for Dr. Seligman and Positive Psychology that was receiving the first-ever Tang Prize for Achievements in Psychology, and maybe glean a quote or two from it. What it ended up being was so much more; a rich tapestry of history, legacy, passion, challenge and triumph.

The MacArthur Fellowship Program announced Wednesday that Angela Duckworth has been selected as a 2013 MacArthur Fellow, positioning her among the ranks of the country’s most elite and innovative scholars.

In the age of social media, people's inner lives are increasingly recorded through the language they use online. With this in mind, an interdisciplinary group of University of Pennsylvania researchers is interested in whether a computational analysis of this language can provide as much, or more, insight into their personalities as traditional methods used by psychologists, such as self-reported surveys and questionnaires.

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