Psychoactive drugs have long been hailed as miracle cures. But you can only understand the paths they blaze through the mind if you’ve traveled them.
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Psychology
One question for José Arroyo-Barrigüete, an economist at Comillas Pontifical University in Spain.
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One question for Nils Köbis, a social psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.
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One question for Michèle Belot, an economist at Cornell University.
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Even when we know they’re “fake,” placebos can tame our emotional distress.
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My son’s language is made of a bundle of sounds that do not exist in the Spanish that we speak around the Río de la Plata. He repeats syllables he himself invented, he alternates them with onomatopoeias, guttural sounds, and high-pitched shouts. It is an expressive, singing language. I wrote this on Twitter at 6:30 […]
Play and art engage all of our senses and enhance attention.
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Hugo Mercier, Melissa Schwartzberg and I have two closely related publications on what we’ve been calling “No-Bullshit Democracy.” One is aimed at academics – it’s a very short piece that has just been officially published in American Political Science Review. The other just came out in Democracy. It’s aimed at a broader audience, and is […]
A positive spin on our past can help inure us against pain.
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