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Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult philosophy
Onetime Blondie bass player and culture critic on Trump, Putin, Pepe the Frog and right-wing magical thinking. By Chauncey DeVega
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Eating for Peace
How cuisine bridges cultures. By Matthew Sedacca.
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What makes people distrust science? Surprisingly, not politics
How is it possible that science, the products of which permeate our everyday lives, making them in many ways more comfortable, elicits such negative attitudes among a substantial part of the population? By Bastiaan T Rutjens.
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Review: 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
Kate Manne on 12 Rules.
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Strategic Communication Laboratories – a Very British Coup
Liam O Hare on the deep connections between Cambridge Analytica’s parent company Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL Group) and the Conservative Party and military establishment.
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The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big Data Psy-Ops
Once Cambridge Analytica and SCL had won contracts with the State Department and were pitching to the Pentagon, the whistleblower Christopher Wylie became alarmed that this illegally-obtained data had ended up at the heart of government, along with the contractors who might abuse it. This apparently bizarre intersection of research on topics like love and kindness with defense and intelligence interests is not, in fact, particularly unusual. It is typical of the kind of dual-use research that has shaped the field of social psychology in the US since World War II. By Tamsin Shaw.
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Fear Factors
On the Psychology of Safety and Danger. By Veronique Greenwood.
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Rats Can Trade Favors
The wildly social rodents will work for snacks. By Jessica Leigh Hester.
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Che, Stalin, Mussolini and the Thinkers Who Loved Them
Why are intellectuals and thinkers, who normally face persecution and risk under dictatorial regimes, nonetheless attracted to tyrants and would-be liberators? By Aram Bakshian Jr.
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28 Psychological Experiments That Will Change What You Think You Know About Yourself
The nature of human behaviour is complex, sometimes illogical, and often difficult to understand. We, however, are curious creatures, eager to find out the truths behind every question, always striving to know more. That is why there’s no surprise that over the years many psychological experiments were conducted in order to delve deeper into the human mind and to clear out the why’s and the how’s of our behaviour. By Agne.
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Fact-Free
Where No Center Holds. By Alexander Zubatov.
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From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over
Vacuous management-speak is easily laughed off – but is there a real cost to talking rubbish? By André Spicer.
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Why Would a 16-Year-Old Girl Slaughter Her Uber Driver?
Inside the minds of murderous young women. By Lyz Lenz.
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High cognitive ability not a safeguard from conspiracies, paranormal beliefs
The moon landing and global warming are hoaxes. The U.S. government had advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks. A UFO crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. Is skepticism toward these kinds of unfounded beliefs just a matter of cognitive ability?
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‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster.
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How to Be Diplomatic
Diplomacy seeks to teach us how many good things can still be accomplished when we make some necessary accommodations with the crooked, sometimes touching and hugely unreliable material of human nature.
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We ignore what doesn’t fit with our biases – even if it costs us
We tend to pay more attention to information that confirms our own beliefs and biases, and we are prepared to lose money to stick to our guns. By Jessica Hamzelou.
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Studies find the need to feel unique is linked to belief in conspiracy theories
The belief in conspiracy theories could be motivated in part by the desire to stand out. Two separate teams of researchers in Europe have independently found evidence that the desire to feel unique is linked to the belief in conspiracies.
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The Authoritarian Personality Revisited: Reading Adorno in the Age of Trump
“There is reason to look for psychological types,” Adorno explained, “because the world in which we live is typed and ‘produces’ different ‘types’ of persons.” By Peter E. Gordon. (June 15, 2016)
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Proof that Americans are lying about their sexual desires
What Google searches for porn tell us about ourselves. By Sean Illing with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz.
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