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7 votes
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Caring for the vulnerable opens gateways to our richest, deepest brain states
6 votes -
Casino design and why there are no ninety degree turns in most casinos
4 votes -
Bullying can make children's lives a misery and cause lifelong health problems – but scientists are discovering powerful ways to fight it
17 votes -
The twitches that spread on social media
10 votes -
Textual healing: The novel world of bibliotherapy
3 votes -
The irony of the Dunning Kruger effect
3 votes -
Taming the Beast: The Inner Battle for Control
3 votes -
Why insects are more sensitive than they seem
8 votes -
Energy, and how to get it - All of us know people who have more energy than we do, but the science of the phenomenon is just coming into view
10 votes -
Is there any point in arguing with people?
12 votes -
Searching for Mr. X - For eight years, a man without a memory lived among strangers at a hospital in Mississippi. But was recovering his identity the happy ending he was looking for?
4 votes -
How the modern world makes us mentally ill – Dr. Jonathan Haidt
6 votes -
The psychological advantage of unfalsifiability: The appeal of untestable religious and political ideologies
5 votes -
An obvious bug in Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup that players failed to recognize for two weeks, and what it demonstrates about "cognitive decoupling"
20 votes -
The history of humiliation points to the future of human dignity
5 votes -
Envy
15 votes -
Was Wilhelm Wundt a "Nazi"?: Volkerpsychologie, Racism and Anti-Semitism by Adrian Brock
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The transatlantic element: Psychoanalysis, exile, circulation of ideas and institutionalization between Spain and Argentina
5 votes -
Have you ever met a psychopath?
For the past month, I have been reading "The Wisdom of Psychopaths" by Kevin Dutton which delves into traits, behaviors, and motivations behind psychopaths. This book isn't just about serial...
For the past month, I have been reading "The Wisdom of Psychopaths" by Kevin Dutton which delves into traits, behaviors, and motivations behind psychopaths. This book isn't just about serial killers but rather also the "successful" functional psychopaths such as stockbrokers, politicians, and business executives. You can read an excerpt from the book here if interested. A few interesting takeaways that I have had from the book so far are the innate cues that some people have on picking up on psychopathic cues. This is like speaking to someone and getting the heebie-jeebies from them for some reason. Apparently, women are more perceptive to this than men.
So, I'm curious if you have ever met a person that gave off that vibe, and what in particular gave you that vibe?
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The doomed mouse utopia that inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’. Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the ’60s and ’70s playing god to thousands of rodents.
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A theory of creepiness
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The man who confessed to being a serial killer
7 votes -
Politically polarized brains share an intolerance of uncertainty
5 votes -
Creeps and creepiness
3 votes -
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: A brief history of people losing their minds in Antarctica
5 votes -
What predicts professional philosophers’ views?
4 votes -
The future of reasoning
7 votes -
Before you answer, consider the opposite possibility
8 votes -
How important is passion? It depends on your culture
5 votes -
Our brain typically overlooks this brilliant problem-solving strategy
17 votes -
The truth about lying
10 votes -
Extraversion, happiness, and the pandemic
3 votes -
Microdosing's feel-good benefits might just be placebo effect
18 votes -
What happened to Jordan Peterson?
16 votes -
Stanford study into “Zoom Fatigue” explains why video chats are so tiring
22 votes -
The Super Bowl of dissonance
5 votes -
Matthew Syed looks at how the behaviour of hostages at a 1973 bank robbery gave rise to a concept known as Stockholm syndrome
5 votes -
Is social media hijacking our minds?
6 votes -
The cognitive tradeoff hypothesis
6 votes -
Bring back the nervous breakdown
14 votes -
Illusions of time
6 votes -
A real-life Lord of the Flies: The troubling legacy of the Robbers Cave experiment
7 votes -
Five things worth knowing about empathy
4 votes -
The erosion of deep literacy
8 votes -
How to buy gifts that people actually want
13 votes -
How the self-esteem craze took over America
8 votes -
There's nothing "WEIRD" about conspiracy theories
6 votes -
Why athletes choke: What makes an elite sports star suddenly unable to do the very thing they have been practising for years? And is there anything they can do about it?
3 votes -
There's more to life than being happy | Emily Esfahani Smith
4 votes