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Stop Using the Word Pseudoscience
A guiding tenet has emerged through years of climate change discussions and other polarizing scientific debates: Framing issues as “us versus them”—with a clear ingroup and outgroup—encourages polarization. The term pseudoscience inherently creates this framing, pitting those who believe in “real” science against those who believe in “fake” science. But these discussions really indicate whom we trust. And maybe if people trust alleged pseudoscience over science, we should be discussing why, rather than dismissing their values and beliefs.
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The Chicago Cubs, the Goat Curse and the Psychological Roots of Superstition
The intuitive reasoning behind “magical thinking” may carry an evolutionary advantage. By David Noonan.
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From conspiracy theories to climate change denial, a cognitive psychologist explains
Stephan Lewandowsky, chair of cognitive psychology at the University of Bristol, answered questions posed by the public on Reddit. The Conversation has curated the highlights. (Apr. 16, 2016)
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Neuroscientist Dean Burnett, author of The Idiot Brain, peers into our heads
Author pokes holes in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and explains how drinking can help us recall memories. By Jonathan Forani. (May 17, 2016)
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The scientists who make apps addictive
Silicon Valley’s most successful tech companies use the insights of behaviour design to pump us with dopamine and keep us returning to their products. But, as Ian Leslie learns, some of the psychologists who developed the science of persuasion are worried about the way it is being used. By Ian Leslie.
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How Irritable Are You? Take This Test to Find Out
“If we can isolate irritability we can perhaps develop treatments that are best targeted towards people that are particularly irritable.” 2016. By Jesse Singal.
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Why Haters Hate: Kierkegaard Explains the Psychology of Bullying and Online Trolling in 1847
“Showing that they don’t care about me, or caring that I should know they don’t care about me, still denotes dependence... They show me respect precisely by showing me that they don’t respect me.” By Maria Popova.
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Shyness: small acts of heroism
The Concise Oxford Dictionary describes shyness as being “diffident or uneasy in company; timid”. In this new “field guide to shyness”, Joe Moran, the author of several quiet, very British, social histories including Queuing for Beginners and On Roads, does nothing so bold as announce his own definition of the term… By Katy Guest.
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City Living Makes Animals Dishonest
Honesty is the basis of any good relationship. This is as true for animals as it is for humans… By Josh Gabbatiss.
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What the state of your desk says about you
Whether you're a clean freak or a slob, your workspace may reveal a lot about your personality
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Ghostly graffiti of a notorious university prison.
Heidelberg is a university town, the oldest and most prestigious in Germany, counting Victor Hugo and Mark Twain among its alumni, as well at least 56 Nobel prize-winners over the years. As brilliant as their students were however, if they misbehaved, the university had the jurisdiction to incarcerate them in their own dungeons and sentences could run on from days to weeks.
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Etiquette by country | Dress Code, behavior, tipping....
Find and compare proper etiquette from countries around the world by categories including dress, dining, tipping, gestures, gifts, and more.
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Aesthetic consumerism and the violence of photography: What Susan Sontag teaches us about visual culture and the social web.
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power. It seems positively unnatural to travel for pleasure without taking a camera along. Photographs will offer indisputable evidence that the trip was made, that the program was carried out, that fun was had.
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Charles Bukowski wrote this letter about quitting the 9 to 5 Life, 30 years later it’s more relevant than ever.
As a young man I could not believe that people could give their lives over to those conditions. As an old man, I still can’t believe it. What do they do it for? Sex? TV? An automobile on monthly payments? Or children? Children who are just going to do the same things that they did?
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People Who Take Revenge Do It to Restore Inner Peace, Study Says
We talked to a researcher behind a new study on the motivations behind revenge to find out why burning all your ex's clothes just feels right. By Kimberly Lawson.
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So you’re surrounded by idiots. Guess who the real jerk is
Are you surrounded by fools? Are you the only reasonable person around? Then maybe you’re the one with the jerkitude. By Eric Schwitzgebel.
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To understand others' minds, 'being' them beats reading them.
We tend to believe that people telegraph how they're feeling through facial expressions and body language and we only need to watch them to know what they're experiencing -- but new research shows we'd get a much better idea if we put ourselves in their shoes instead.
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Our ongoing willingness to obey morally objectionable orders.
New research from Poland successfully recreates Stanley Milgram’s famous obedience studies from the 1960s.
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Feeling authentic in a relationship comes from being able to be your best self, not your actual self
it might be time to revise the authenticity trope in romantic movies… By Christian Jarrett.
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Has social media changed how we use sarcasm?
In computer-mediated communication, you would expect that because there aren’t many opportunities to signal irony and provide cues, like gestures or facial expressions, you would expect that people avoid it. But they don’t. The internet speaks for itself on this point, but research also backs it up: In 2004, Stanford communications professor Jeff Hancock published a study in the Journal of Language in Social Psychology suggesting that people may use sarcasm more frequently online than they do in face-to-face interaction. Sarcasm is alive and well online; that much is obvio
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