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The Case Against Self-Actualization
How individualism has cultivated a "me" approach to living.
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New study links celebrity worship to addictive and problematic social media use
People who are obsessed with celebrities are more likely to engage in addictive use of social media, according to new research from Eötvös Loránd ...
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Why Do We Even Listen to New Music?
Our brains reward us for seeking out what we already know. So why should we reach to listen to something we don’t?
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How boredom can inspire adventure
While held in a POW camp in 1942, Felice Benuzzi hatched a plan to successfully break out and climb Mt Kenya. Perhaps his story can inspire all of us stuck at home to dream big.
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The Pattern That Epidemics Always Follow
First comes denial. Then panic.
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People who get lost in the wild follow strangely predictable paths
Lose your bearings in an unfamiliar landscape and fear shreds your navigational brain. But studies are now revealing the common mistakes lost people make, helping rescue teams to find them before it’s too late
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Worried About Swearing Too Much? Science Says You Shouldn't Be
People who swear like a sailor are more honest and more intelligent, studies show.
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Rich robbers: why do wealthy people shoplift?
Evidence suggests the rich actually do steal more than the poor – and shoplifting is only ‘the first layer of the onion’
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Surveillance Cameras Show Good Samaritans Prevail Over Bystander Effect
A new study uses camera footage to track the frequency of bystander intervention in heated incidents in Amsterdam, Cape Town, and Lancaster, England.
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Why Do We Point? Scientists Find It's Not Actually About Directing Attention
The "arrow hypothesis" doesn't hold up.
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How people want to feel determines whether others can influence their emotions, Stanford psychologists find
New Stanford research on emotions shows that people’s motivations are a driving factor behind how much they allow others to influence their feelings, such as anger.
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Watch an ant rip apart a spiderweb to rescue a sibling
Desert harvester ants charge into danger and dismantle spider traps
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'Paramedic' Ants Are the First to Rescue and Heal Their Wounded Comrades
Matabele ants nurse each other back to health after battle with a surprisingly high success rate, a new study finds.
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Four Irrational Behaviors Voltaire Warned Us About
"I’ve had experience, I know the world. Amuse yourself, ask every passenger to tell you his story, and if you find one, just one, who hasn’t often cursed his life, who hasn’t often told himself he’s the unluckiest of men, throw me headfirst into the sea.’’ – Voltaire.
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If You’re Bad, Here's How to Get People to Think You’re Good
Consider the protagonist Walter White from the series Breaking Bad. Throughout the series, he manufactures methamphetamine, repeatedly puts his family in danger, and commits multiple murders. And yet viewers liked him. In fact, some even defended him. How is this possible?
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The Dirty Truth Coming for Self-Driving Cars
The future is being picked up by an autonomous taxi with a used condom on the floor.
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Choose her every day or leave her.
Intimate relationships don't last because you love each other. They last because you make–and remake–a choice. If you’re in a relationship, I invite you to ask yourself this question: “Why am I choosing my partner today?” If you can’t find a satisfying answer, dig deeper and find one. It could be as simple as noticing that in your deepest heart’s truth, “I just do. Your loved one deserves to be enthusiastically chosen. Every day. You do, too.
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The Most Controversial Psych Study Is Repeated - Same Weird Result -
What would you do if repeatedly ordered to give a strong electric shock to a helpless stranger?
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Why we say things before we think.
Researchers found that the brain began to prepare the motor areas to respond very early, during initial stimulus presentation, suggesting that we get ready to respond even before we know what the response will be. This might explain why people sometimes say things before they think.
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Pictures that show just how hardcore ’70s punk really was.
"All punk is is attitude, that's what makes it, the attitude." —Joey Ramone.
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