A new book explores what drives the brain’s sometimes insatiable quest for vengeance
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Psychology
Psychologist Paul Bloom on why chatbots make good companions. And why they don't.
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What 450 million song plays tell us about how our listening habits evolve
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A childhood spent under the spell of sleight-of-hand taught me skepticism, curiosity, and the habit of looking beneath appearances
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Some people have extraordinary powers of mental time travel
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Rabidly consuming TV shows, movies, or books could make us more imaginative and able to cope with stress
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People took mushrooms, then studied famous paintings. Here’s what happened.
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Talking with philosopher Nathan Crick about using mass persuasion for good
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Your brain and the Anna Karenina effect
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There’s a German word for that feeling
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