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Rats Can Trade Favors
The wildly social rodents will work for snacks. By Jessica Leigh Hester.
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Fear Factors
On the Psychology of Safety and Danger. By Veronique Greenwood.
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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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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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Review: 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
Kate Manne on 12 Rules.
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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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Eating for Peace
How cuisine bridges cultures. By Matthew Sedacca.
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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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The brainwashing myth
Once we move beyond brainwashing as an explanation for people’s behaviors, we can actually learn quite a bit about why individuals are drawn to new ideas and alternative religions or make choices at odds with their previous lifestyles. By Rebecca Moore.
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The music moves us — but how?
The author of This Is Your Brain on Music talks about the very human ways the mind and body keep the beat.
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Sex Toys Will Never Be Able To Do The Hardest Work For You
In the years I worked at a sex shop, I saw how the pressure to have great sex — in a world that will never be a level playing field — can inflict its own kind of damage. By Fancy Feast.
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High score, low pay: why the gig economy loves gamification
Using ratings, competitions and bonuses to incentivise workers isn’t new – but as I found when I became a Lyft driver, the gig economy is taking it to another level. By Sarah Mason.
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The Psychology of Russiagate
America in denial: Gabor Maté on the psychology of Russiagate. With Aaron Maté.
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Unpublished data from Stanley Milgram's experiments cast doubt on his claims about obedience
An analysis of previously unpublished data raises serious questions about Stanley Milgram’s landmark obedience experiments. The findings, which have been published in Social Psychology Quarterly, indicate that many people were willing to engage in seemingly reprehensible behavior because they saw through the researchers’ cover story. Those who believed the cover story, on the other hand, tended to be more defiant.
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Real Revolution Means Expanding Consciousness, Both Outwardly And Inwardly
The fight to liberate humanity from oppression, exploitation, butchery and madness is really a fight to expand consciousness.
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Adolescents Are Kinder Than We Might Think
A researcher from the University of British Columbia in Okanagan is hoping to flip the switch on the pre-convinced stereotype that teens are mean. Associate Professor John-Tyler Binfet, a researcher in the School of Education, says teenagers often receive a negative reputation, sometimes showcased in mainstream media reports of bullying, cyberharassment or schoolyard battles.
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Even if you want to, you can’t ignore how people look or sound
Your perceptions of someone you just met are influenced in part by what they look like and how they sound. But can you ignore how someone looks or how they sound if you’re told it is not relevant? Probably not, at least in most cases, a new Ohio State University study found.
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Teens who spend more time taking part in extracurricular activities like sports and art and less time in front of screens have better mental health, study finds
If you're worried about your kids' mental health, particularly because of the Covid-19 pandemic and social distancing mandates, less screen time and more extracurricular activities will help, says a new study. Adolescents -- especially girls -- who spend more time in extracurricular activities and less than two hours of screen time after school have better mental health, according to a study from the University of British Columbia and published in the journal Preventive Medicine.
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New Stanford study says Zoom calls trigger our 'fight or flight' survival reflex
Does every meeting need to be a Zoom call? Americans are marking the one-year anniversary of stay-at-home orders and remote working with a growing sense of pandemic fatigue. And a new study finds that staring at your coworkers’ faces, up-close and personal, and your own is probably triggering your “fight or flight” survival reflex.
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Is There a Smarter Way to Think About Sexual Assault on Campus?
If I were asked by a survey to describe my experience with sexual assault in college, I would pinpoint two incidents, both of which occurred at or after parties in my freshman year. In the first case, the guy went after me with sniper accuracy, magnanimously giving me a drink he’d poured upstairs. In the second case, I’m sure the guy had no idea that he was doing something wrong.
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