Matthew Syed looks at how the behaviour of hostages at a 1973 bank robbery gave rise to a concept known as Stockholm syndrome
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Bring back the nervous breakdown
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A real-life Lord of the Flies: The troubling legacy of the Robbers Cave experiment
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Five things worth knowing about empathy
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The erosion of deep literacy
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How to buy gifts that people actually want
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How the self-esteem craze took over America
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There's nothing "WEIRD" about conspiracy theories
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There's more to life than being happy | Emily Esfahani Smith
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Why do we feel nostalgia? | Clay Routledge
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Why are we in the West so weird? A theory
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How to be a mystical materialist
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'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US mountain regions
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The sunk cost fallacy
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Unraveling the mindset of victimhood
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Why ‘one day at a time’ works for recovering alcoholics
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Individuals higher in psychological entitlement respond to bad luck with anger
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Which is "Bouba", and which is "Kiki"?
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Magicians’ priming techniques are effective at influencing choice
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Williams syndrome: The opposite of autism
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The science of user experience: How to use cognitive science in modern software development
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There's something about Casey
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Is religion a flawed play-style for humans and if so, why did it arise in the first place? (Feat. TierZoo)
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From anti-racism to psychobabble
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$100,000 Whales - An introduction to Chinese browser game design
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The Monty Hall problem
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Why are we so quick to scrutinise how low-income families spend their money?
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Helping or harming? The effect of trigger warnings on individuals with trauma histories.
Publication: Helping or Harming? The Effect of Trigger Warnings on Individuals with Trauma Histories. Pre-print version (for people, like me, who don't have access to the published version):...
Publication: Helping or Harming? The Effect of Trigger Warnings on Individuals with Trauma Histories.
Pre-print version (for people, like me, who don't have access to the published version): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334380654_Helping_or_Harming_The_Effect_of_Trigger_Warnings_on_Individuals_with_Trauma_Histories
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Past stressful experiences do not create resilience to future trauma, new study finds
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Making people aware of their implicit biases doesn’t usually change minds. But here’s what does work
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Split brain does not lead to split consciousness
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Are intelligent people more melancholic?
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People drawn to conspiracy theories share a cluster of psychological features
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Why humans totally freak out when they get lost
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Cognitive ability and vulnerability to fake news
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No, you don't have a "lizard brain": Why the Psychology 101 model of the brain is all wrong
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“Immune to evidence”: How dangerous coronavirus conspiracies spread
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Science fiction builds mental resiliency in young readers
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The pandemic is giving people vivid, unusual dreams. Here’s why
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The erosion of deep literacy
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Smarter individuals engage in more prosocial behavior in daily life, study finds
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The great toilet paper scare of 1973
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What the 'meat paradox' reveals about moral decision making
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Empathy is a clock that ticks in the consciousness of another: The science of how our social interactions shape our experience of time
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The inconvenient truth about your “authentic” self
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A future with no future: depression, the left, and the politics of mental health
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“Be yourself” is terrible advice
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A psychiatric diagnosis can be more than an unkind ‘label’
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There’s an entire industry dedicated to making foods crispy
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Eight things toxic mothers have in common
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