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Aggression
Nick was always an angry boy, but he was unlucky as well.
18mins
Abigail Marsh unpacks what defines psychopathy, how it differs from antisocial behavior, and why terms like “sociopath” only add confusion.
Ambition. Descent. Wisdom.
From Hitler to Hamas, Western powers have repeatedly dismissed open threats as bluffs — with catastrophic results.
"I think it's about time we stop allowing every male generation bang their frontal lobe through its most developmental stages."
Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.
10mins
Are humans naturally selfless? Psychologist Abigail Marsh is using studies on psychopathy and altruism to find out.
To understand others, you need to see past their fleeting emotions. You must perceive who they are as people.
In the murder trial of Dan White, the defense touched on diet as a cause for White's actions. It has become known as the "Twinkie defense."
Public mass shooters almost always have worldviews shaped by the "3 Rs": rage, resentment, and revenge.
Is it genes or their special bond that drives identical twins to offend at similar rates?
About three out of every four people arrested in the U.S. are men. That rate is similar across the world.
"Precarious manhood" is the belief that manhood must be earned and constantly defended. It has a poor outcome.
When the UK bans the American Bully XL this year, it won't rely on science to identify them.
Psychopathic tendencies may be present to some extent in all of us. New research is reframing this often sensationalized and maligned set of traits and finding some positive twists.
If cocaine affects sharks at all, it does so as an anesthetic, not as a stimulant.
Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature's most unreliable narrators.
Billy was a local celebrity in the early 1900s. And he might have been a murderer.
Left-handed humans were likelier to get stabbed in the heart.
Being a jerk gets you rich, promoted, and laid (if you're a man). But there is a downside.
There's a link between dark personality traits and breaches of battlefield ethics.
Use words with plosives and affricates if you really want to make sure everyone knows you mean business.
8mins
Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman debunks the ‘10,000 steps per day’ myth.
We are tearing ourselves apart over gender issues, with the result that the problems of boys and men are left untreated.
Cooperation was the first technology.
The recipe for a perfect date night: a rom-com, a bowl of popcorn, and a syringe of testosterone — at least for gerbils, anyway.
Instead of liberation, the sexual revolution has led some people, particularly men, to be addicted to porn.
In the 1980s, some wardens started painting their cells with a shade of pink dubbed "Baker-Miller Pink."