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Social Norms
After it became clear that the world wasn't 6,000 years old, some proposed that northern peoples had emerged independently from others.
Religion fosters traits that are helpful in a school system that relies on authority figures and rewards people who follow the rules.
Finland reveals that happiness is more about mindset than umbrella drinks and sun-warmed beaches.
According to Sigmund Freud, our revulsion at taboos is an attempt to suppress a part of us that actually wants to do them.
Solitude, by itself, does not predict feelings of loneliness.
We seem to have a "progression bias" that nudges us toward pro-relationship decisions and away from breaking up.
If you want to be an authentic person, embrace reality. Don't try to clamber your way up Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
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Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates. Lamborghini vs. Ferrari. What can the most famous rivalries teach us about human nature?
For such a near-universal concept, the definition of "heroism" is difficult to pin down.
Like it or not, we are the descendants of busybodies.
The belief that lying is rampant in the digital age just doesn’t match the data.
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“The Universe is swarming with scapegoats, yet none of us think we have any of our own.”
It will take a national effort to get it done. Here’s how. Over the past six months — a full half of a year — the United States has suffered more deaths and illnesses due […]
Visiting even one friend can undo all the good work that social distancing has accomplished. Over the past few months, people all over the world have come to realize just […]
And why social distancing, isolation, and sheltering-in-place are so effective, but only if we do them early enough. In any biological system, if you put a living organism into an environment […]